[U-Boot] [PATCH] boards.cfg: move many unmaintained boards to Orphan

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom Rini,

In message <20140530182134.GS5836 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> True.  But also how many of these people still have the hardware and
> care?
> 
> I know a few of those folks were doing those as part of their dayjob and
> have moved on, for example.

Agreed.

> I kind of want to say moving them to orphan will perhaps help signal
> that if it's someone elses day job now to check in on the boards from
> time to time, it's time to step up and send in a patch taking
> maintainership at least or they'll get dropped soon enough.

OTOH, some may just have forgotten to update their addresses, so we
could at least try and send them a notification of the orphaning to
their current, working address.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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