[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Eric Nelson,

> > Yea ... I think our community is kinda broken :-(
> 
> Hey. We heard that...
> 
> Careful what you say on an open mic!

Oh man ... I guess it sounded bad indeed, I should have though about the wording 
more, sorry.

I mean, we messed up the management (and I wonder who'll start bashing me for 
this one), resulting in the community being misguided sometimes. Making it hard 
to learn how to contribute too (too many rules etc). Custodians being 
overloaded, warding people off because the review takes too long ... stuff like 
that is what I meant.

So we have too much to improve, yet too less time to do that.

Ad community, there's a lot of people obviously, who contribute regularly (of 
course, such as yourself for example). But I wonder if there's enough of us to 
maintain such a big codebase we have. Besides, people care about linux a lot 
more than about uboot, pushing many more of the maintaining tasks on custodians. 
Or maybe it's the structure that doesn't work well enough to handle the flow. 
Honestly, I'm getting lost in it myself.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut