Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Sven Eckelmann from BATMAN ADVANCED

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

Hi,

> When we agree to allow someone to merge something into the tree,
> especially a significant piece of code like batman-adv, there are some
> impressions we want to have beforehand.
> 
> And one such impression we want is that there is going to be someone
> continuing to be active maintaing the code upstream, even after the
> code is merged.
> 
> Otherwise we get "merge and run" scenerios.  As networking maintainer,
> I've been burnt by this several times.
> 
> If you're the only person who had the energy and motivation to do the
> merges of this code, then you're only person we know that can keep up
> with the expectations we had when we agreed to merge the code.
> 
> If you step down, that trust has been broken, and we're left with a
> rotting pile of poo in the tree because it's unlikely anyone else is
> going to step up and keep things maintained upstream as you did.

believing that the batman-adv code base will not be kept in sync anymore is a 
bit premature at this point. David, you may not know this but the first person 
to handle the "upstream job" was Andrew Lunn. At a certain point he stepped 
down and Sven took over. Now, Sven decided to focus on other things and I am 
certain somebody else will take the job. If no one else volunteers I'll fill 
the gap.

Taking over Sven's position won't be easy as he did a very good job and passes 
on high expectations. Sven, thanks a lot for all your time and effort on this 
matter!

David, I hope you can excuse the bumpy way in which this fell onto you. A 
smooth transition would certainly have been better. We will try to work on 
that part in the future. 

Regards,
Marek