[U-Boot] Stepping down as sunxi u-boot custodian (for real this time)

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 18-11-16 16:48, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 18/11/16 13:02, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Maxime Ripard
>>> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Hans,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> A while back I wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but
>>>>> not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too
>>>>> busy lately.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in
>>>>> linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi
>>>>> custodian."
>>>
>>> Hans, thanks for all your great work.
>>
>> +1 for Hans' good work!
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After that I did get some breathing room, and kept doing
>>>>> sunxi u-boot maintenance until now, but this still feels
>>>>> too much like a job rather then a hobby. The problem is
>>>>> that I don't want to think during the weekend:
>>>>> "Oh !@#$ I still need to prep a u-boot sunxi pull-req"
>>>>>
>>>>> This is nothing against the u-boot community, I think
>>>>> you're all great and I still love thinkering with this
>>>>> kind of stuff, but when a hobby starts feeling as a chore
>>>>> something is wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> So after this mail I'm going to send a mail updating
>>>>> the MAINTAINERS status of sunxi to orphan and I will also
>>>>> unsubscribe myself from the u-boot list to protect myself
>>>>> against getting dragged in again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do expect (after taking a break for a couple of weeks)
>>>>> that I will likely submit the occasional patch, but at
>>>>> this point in time I do not want any maintainer
>>>>> responsibilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday and today I've gone over my pending patches
>>>>> queue, reviewed then all and I've merged all the ones
>>>>> which looked good into u-boot-sunxi/next, so that
>>>>> should be a good starting point for the next
>>>>> maintainer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for the great work you did over those years :)
>>>>
>>>>> Jagan (in the Cc) has indicated in the past that he is
>>>>> interested in taking over as sunxi custodian, Jagan already
>>>>> is the SPI custodian, so I believe that he will do well.
>>>>>
>>>>> So Jagan, if you still want the job, go for it.
>>>
>>> OK, Hans thanks for believing my work - will try my best.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As I said before, I can help whoever is willing to take over by
>>>> becoming co-maintainer for some time, in order to make the transition
>>>> as smooth as possible.
>>>>
>>>> Jagan, are you still willing to do this?
>>>
>>> Yes, Maxime I will do this, please help me for initial transition and
>>> technical details if any.
>>> Can I get any board sample from any all-winner or related communities?
>>
>> Feel free to send any 64-bit (A64, H64, H5) related questions/patches
>> into my direction. I can test stuff, also give advice and do reviews.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hans, I see few redundant commits on next wrt latest master in b/w,
> can you point me diff commits which needs to send PR? I tried of
> comparing but not get the exact result.

If you checkout u-boot-sunxi/next and then do a "git rebase u-boot/master"
git should give you a new next branch, with the already merged commits
removed.

Regards,

Hans