From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:24:56 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Custodianship updates In-Reply-To: <20080707232509.8DCA1248FE@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080707232509.8DCA1248FE@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4872CFF8.6070606@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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