[PATCH] sunxi: MAINTAINERS: drop myself

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 02:35:54PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:13:44 -0400
> Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> thanks for the heads up, somehow the original email didn't reach me.
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 04:50:34PM +0900, FUKAUMI Naoki wrote:
> > 
> > > I no longer maintain them.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: FUKAUMI Naoki <naobsd at gmail.com>  
> > 
> > Thanks for your time on these platforms.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > 
> > Andre, Jagan, which one of you wants to pick these up? I assume you
> > don't want to drop the defconfigs themselves.
> 
> To be honest, I am more inclined to delete that whole file. Given its age
> and the (natural and understandable) volatility of engagement for those
> boards I don't think there is much actual information in there anymore than
> "person originally submitted the *_defconfig" (which we have in the git
> log).
> For instance I think that Hans retreated from day-to-day sunxi
> engagement years ago, and I wonder if he even still possesses all of these
> boards listed under his name - which was more of a catch-all anyway, IIUC.
> 
> So it's either that (which is certainly easier), or I write to everyone on
> the list and ask for an update on the support situation. Because I also
> feel that only a small fraction of these boards receives some testing, so
> wouldn't be surprised to find many of them broken for a while - given the
> refactoring we did lately.
> 
> But please note that I don't intend to drop any of the defconfigs
> unnecessarily, so just because we *believe* they are unsupported.
> 
> Any opinions?

Reaching out to everyone listed and checking in with them is probably a
good first step. Since these boards are just a defconfig, it's not too
hard to resurrect them if later on someone has one and wants to maintain
it.

-- 
Tom
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