Simon Glass's future with Das U-Boot project?

[Alex Kiernan]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
<michael at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 10:13:13AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > While I had hoped that the quiet of the last week or so had meant that
> > > things would perhaps return to how they had been before, Simon's large
> > > patch series and then comments on the TPM+bloblist patch have shown
> > > otherwise.
> > >
> > > At this point, I do not know how best to handle Simon's behavior,
> > > without soliciting feedback in public first. At best he's created a
> > > soft-fork of the project with his "sjg/master" branch. I've asked him
> > > repeatedly to explain how he thinks this is all going to work out, in
> > > public. I've had private conversations with him, but I want him to
> >
>
> I have some private fork of the project and have some project that
> implements
> some features that are still not in the mainline. I think that forking
> u-boot in general
> is not a good idea.

This (with honourable exceptions) is the SoC vendor model - in my
current world I'm stuck on 2015 U-Boot for goodness sake... forking it
is a terrible idea.

> > > But what's going on now is towards the worst end of
> > > possible outcomes I think for the project itself. And by that I mean,
> > > one prominent contributor steam-rolling over others and doing as the
> > > please and implicitly acting as an authoritative voice for the project.
> >
> > I personally don't want to pay attention to out of tree patches.
> > Simon randomly responds to emails 'applied to sjg1/master' or something
> > along those lines, which further complicates things as people might think
> > their code got merged.
> >
>
> Me too. I don't have that time and for the moment how the project is
> progressive is fine.
>

Sitting on the sidelines mostly these days, when I dip in, then
realising that I spent time reading a thread which isn't on code which
is heading towards the mainline, is at best annoying and frankly a
waste of time.

-- 
Alex Kiernan