[U-Boot-Users] Changes to U-Boot Development Process

Wolfgang Denk
2007-02-08T00:52:10Z

Hello,

it is more than time for a summary of the reactions to our proposal
to split the U-Boot development into several subsystems and to share
the responsibility for these in a group of "custodians". Here it
comes:

1) The reaction was all positive. So we will take the next steps in
that direction.

2) There was a general agreement that it would be beneficial to have
all the custodian's (public) repositories located on the same
server, so we willdo that. If nobody objects, we will host this on
www.denx.de

We intend to name these repositories after their function (rather,
for example, after the name of the custodian), so we don't have to
modify anything in case there should be a change of the
custodians.

3) It was no problem to find custodians for all suggested areas.
Thanks a lot to all of you who volunteered!

You can find an overview about the current situation at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Custodians

This also includes the suggested names for the git repositories.
Please feel free to comment.

To avoid conflicts, I would like to establish a strict match between
a repository and a custodian, i. e. each of the git repositories can
be pushed into by exactly one custodian. As you can see, we already
have mostly such matches, only for MIPS we have three instead of one
volunteer.

It's really great to receive so much voluntary help, but in the end
we can have only one custodian for MIPS. However, for me it is
impossible to decide who to chose of Robert, Rodolfo or Hans. Can you
please try to sort this out among the three of you, eventually with
feedback from the list?

Custodians: can each of you please send me your public SSH keys? We
will then set up the git repositories so we can get the whole thing
rocking ASAP... [If you don't want to send it by e-mail, you can also
use jabber: wd at jabber.denx.de].

Thanks in advance,

Wolfgang Denk

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