Determining Simon Glass's future in the U-Boot project

[Tom Rini]

Hey all,

First, I am not happy to be writing this email. But at this point, I
feel I have no other choice, for the good of the overall project and
community.

Back in January[0] of this year I made a post with almost this same
subject line. At that point there had already been a number of problems
working with Simon and the overall community. I did not include a list
of links. At that point the easiest answer would be to go to the mailing
list archive, pick any thread that Simon and I had and see the long
disagreements. This trend has fundamentally not changed. And while I
started this out with some threads and my summaries of them, instead I
want to point to this email I sent this mornig:
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250528170533.GE100073@bill-the-cat/

And to repeat what I said there, Simon needs to decide if it's more
important to work with the community or have his way every time. Simon
cannot have both. Simon needs to accept that some things he think are
good ideas have been rejected or he needs to fork off from U-Boot. Or he
can ask the community to take over as the project head. If the community
wants Simon to run things, I will step down and just be an individual
contributor again. Five months of this experiment shows me that it's not
working at all and will only be a bigger problem as time goes on.

And, I mean it. I cannot take the additional stress of what new problems
await me every morning. I do not take the above lightly, but I do not
think the project can become healthy moving forward without some
resolution here and quickly. While I won't claim my time as the head of
the project has been perfect, I have tried my best to always be honest
and fair and to seek compromise.

With respect to voting, would anyone volunteer to run a poll from
https://civs1.civs.us/ (which is used by the Yocto Project /
OpenEmbedded and likely other FOSS projects/communities) ?

-- 
Tom
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