[U-Boot-Users] Custodianship updates

[Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> as many of you will have seen, there have been a few areas in  U-Boot
> where  processing of patches and new code submissions did not work as
> quickly and smoothly as we all would have liked.
> 
> I'm all the more happy to be able to announce updates for two (IMHO
> both important) areas:
> 
> * ARM: Peter Pearse has been trying his best to  do  a  good  job  to
>   maintain the (huge!) ARM part of the U-Boot project, but he did not
>   find enough free resources to do this on a regular base. I know all
>   too  well  how  that  feels,  as I'm in the very same situation too
>   often myself.
> 
>   But now we have the chance  that  Jean-Christophe  Plagniol-Villard
>   volunteers  to  help out, and given from the previous activities he
>   has shown on the mailing list I think that he is  very  capable  of
>   doing that job.
> 
>   Peter has agreed that Jean-Christophe takes over the  custodianship
>   for ARM. If there are no objections (or better suggestions) I would
>   install this change more or less immediately.
> 
>   Comments?

ACK.  I have to sympathize with Peter.  Doing a full time job on a spare 
time budget sucks.

> * MPC512x: as it turns out, Grant Likely, the custodian  for  MPC5xxx
>   systems,  finds  neither  time  nor  resources to work with MPC512x
>   processors. Fortunately John Rigby volunteered, in addition to  all
>   his  previous  work  he  has  optimal access to recent hardware and
>   documentation :)
> 
>   If there are no objections, I would like to split custodionship for
>   these processors into "MPC5xxx" (meaning actually MPC5200), handled
>   by Grant Likely as before, and into MPC512x, handled by John Rigby.
>   
>   Comments?

Ditto.  Sounds like John is well positioned and provisioned.

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
gvb