Re: Maintenance of Linux FPGA

[Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>]

Yilun,

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:44:49PM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:39:23AM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I lately did not have enough time to dedicate to the Linux FPGA
> > subsystem, concerns were raised around bus-factor and all.
> > 
> > Looking at my day-job I don't see this getting better in the short-term
> > so I've decided to get a conversation going on how to structure this
> > better for the benefit of the Linux FPGA subsystem.
> > 
> > Maybe a maintainer team approach would address the bus factor and
> > workload concerns better?
> > 
> > In terms of people I was thinking about:
> > 
> > Hao has done a great job at keeping the DFL part of things going, so I
> > think he'd be a great choice.
> > 
> > Yilun has been very helpful with reviews and I think he'd be a good
> > pick, too.
> 
> It's my pleasure for the nomination and yes I'd like to be one of the
> maintainer team, to be more helpful.

Great, thanks for helping out. I'll look into setting up a shared
repository in the next couple of days.

In the meantime try getting a kernel.org account setup following the
instructions here: https://korg.docs.kernel.org/accounts.html

I don't remember if you have to be listed as M: entry in MAINTAINERS for
the account to get approved. In any case I'll send out a patch in a bit.

- Moritz