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

Tolunay Orkun
2007-01-19T10:23:26Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Do we have an immediate line of volunteers raising in the first row?
>
> Skimming through the archives we came up with a list of people which
> the U-Boot project already is indebted to and probably being good
> candidates for custodians. Of course this list cannot and does not
> want to be a "credits" list of all the valuable people having
> contributed, so please don't attribute anything else to it as being a
> starting point for this new maintenance mode. Also there are multiple
> suggestions where ultimately of course we would like the community to
> decide.
>
> So with all these precautions in place, here we go:
>
> ARM architecture Richard Woodruff, Peter Pearse
> AVR32 architecture Haavard Skinnemoen
> Blackfin architecture Aubrey Li
> Intel IXP architecture Stefan Roese
> ColdFire architecture Stefan Roese
> Microblaze architecture Michal Simek
> MIPS architecture Rodolfo Giometti, Andrew Dyer
> MPC83xx architecture Kim Phillips
> MPC85xx architecture Jon Loelinger
> MPC86xx architecture Jon Loelinger
> MPC8xx architecture Wolfgang Denk
> NIOS(2) Scott McNutt
> PPC4xx architecture Stefan Roese
>
> CFI FLASH driver Tolunay Orkun
>

I am honored. I do not have hosting capability right now so this part of
the tree will need to be hosted on your site for the time being.

I guess you will detail the working protocol push/pull, conflict
resolution, documentation etc. in more detail in the near future.

> NAND FLASH subsystem Ladislav Michl, Stefan Roese
> USB drivers Markus Klotzb?cher
>
> So thanks for bearing with us through this longwinded mail that
> hopefully starts to pave the way to a new level of quality and extent
> of the U-Boot project that is only possibly through its very active
> community - you!
>

Thanks for being such a good (and sometimes mis-understood) gatekeeper.
Your leadership made U-Boot an open source standard.

Best regards,
Tolunay