Maintenance of Python tools

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:55:15PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:34:23PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> > 
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 08:08, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 05:39:30PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Tom has indicated that he would like Patman to move out of his tree. I
> > > > suggested on another thread[1] that I maintain it in my 'sjg' tree, so
> > > > here is a new thread to discuss this.
> > > >
> > > > I have already done this for the qemu/efi/coreboot scripts as Tom has
> > > > NAK'ed patches for those.
> > > >
> > > > For the other tools there is going to be quite a bit of churn, as I
> > > > would like to resolve most of the many Python warnings.
> > > >
> > > > Given the shared source between the tools, it would be easier for me
> > > > to do the same for buildman, binman and qconfig. I am thinking that I
> > > > might try a move to allow Gitlab pull-requests for reviews on these as
> > > > well as the mailing list, if that is useful.
> > > >
> > > > For tools which need to sync back to Tom's tree (i.e. not patman), I
> > > > or Tom could do a pull request every now and then, omitting any
> > > > changes that relate to pylint.
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know your thoughts. The timing is good as I am going to
> > > > be sending out a new Patman feature in the next few weeks and it is a
> > > > few thousand more lines of code.
> > >
> > > My biggest objection to all of this is that you should NOT use
> > > sjg.u-boot.org as that perpetuates your abusing owning u-boot.org. As I
> > > said in the thread, it should be under https://source.denx.de/u-boot/
> > > somewhere and you should be the one to own it there.
> > 
> > I wish you would stop bringing this up. Until things change, that is
> > unfortunately what I have to do, to avoid being blocked.
> 
> I really wish you would stop holding the project domain hostage. I will
> not stop bringing up that you are holding the project domain hostage
> because you are holding the project domain hostage.
> 
> I am in fact getting close to my breaking point of you and your holding
> of the project domain hostage.

And since you don't like me pointing this out, would you transfer the
domain to either:

- Myself (the head of the project)

- DENX (whom I am volunteering on the spur of the moment, sorry) who
  otherwise run the projects general infrastructure

?

-- 
Tom
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