[U-Boot] Stepping down as sunxi u-boot custodian

Jagan Teki jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 18:01:25 CEST 2016


On 27 July 2016 at 19:28, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 06:58:24PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> On 27 July 2016 at 04:06, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:42:27AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > On 04-07-16 14:57, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> >> > >Hi All,
>> >> > >
>> >> > >Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but
>> >> > >not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too
>> >> > >busy lately.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in
>> >> > >linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi
>> >> > >custodian.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >I've asked Ian if he wanted to pick things up, but he is too
>> >> > >busy too.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >So now the sunxi u-boot support is looking for a new custodian,
>> >> > >any takers ?
>> >> >
>> >> > So it looks like there is no-one available to take this over from
>> >> > me, and I've have managed to successfully hand over maintenance
>> >> > form a bunch of other projects, so I'll keep doing this for now.
>> >> >
>> >> > Still if someone wants to take over, please let me know I will
>> >> > happily step down (and I will be available afterwards to help
>> >> > out where needed).
>> >>
>> >> FWIW, if anyone is interested in taking over, I'm can help with the
>> >> load if needed.
>> >
>> > I would also be quite happy to see a joint custodian setup similar to
>> > how some of the Linux Kernel trees are handled, if that would make
>> > things easier as well.
>>
>> Does this mean same person(s) to handle both the trees?
>
> The people that agree to work together on it would yes, share access to
> the tree and coordinate amongst themselves on how to divide the work up.

Sounds good to me, and also the person who maintain Linux and
co-maintain in u-boot and vice-versa so-that both the
maintainers/trees should be in-sync, IMHO.

-- 
Jagan.


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