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

[Tom Rini]

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
> explain in public. Or, he can post the messages if he likes.
> 
> And I am in the process of getting outside help that would in turn be
> able to help the project move beyond the BDFL model we've always used.
> Because at the end of the day, if most of the active developers would
> prefer the direction Simon wants to take everything in, that's something
> I can accept. 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.

It's been not quite two weeks. On the positive side, Simon and I are
continuing to talk in private and things are moving in what I hope (and I
believe Simon hopes) to be a good direction for both individuals and the
project as a whole. And to answer some of the "wait, what is this
about?" in order to not misconstrue things I would point anyone at the
list archives of the last few months for how things have finally reached
this point, but it's been a much longer running problem.

-- 
Tom
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