[U-Boot] nios2 custodian

[U-Boot] nios2 custodian

[Thomas Chou]

Dear Wolfgang,

Since Scott is very busy, I'd be willing to take over the maintenance of 
nios2 in u-boot.

I've been doing nios development for ten years. We work closely with 
Altera. I maintain nios2-linux, nios2-dev mailing list, the nios2 git 
repos and nios wiki, which is sponsored by Altera. Though I am new to 
this list, we maintained nios2 updates in our own git repo for years.

I will do my best to support the community. Thank you.

Best regards,
Thomas

[U-Boot] nios2 custodian

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Thomas Chou,

In message <4BFB6F8D.30201@wytron.com.tw> you wrote:
> 
> Since Scott is very busy, I'd be willing to take over the maintenance of 
> nios2 in u-boot.
> 
> I've been doing nios development for ten years. We work closely with 
> Altera. I maintain nios2-linux, nios2-dev mailing list, the nios2 git 
> repos and nios wiki, which is sponsored by Altera. Though I am new to 
> this list, we maintained nios2 updates in our own git repo for years.
> 
> I will do my best to support the community. Thank you.

Thanks for your offer.  I understand you are concerned that your
patches don't get processed as fast as you'd like.  I'm sorry for
that.

Is this understanding correct, or are there other / additional reasons
why you would like to take over?


So far, Scott has done a good job as custodian. As far as I remember,
there have never been any complaints about his work.  Also, he assured
me that he is willing to continue performing this duty, to the best of
his capabilities.

[U-Boot] nios2 custodian

[Thomas Chou]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Thanks for your offer.  I understand you are concerned that your
> patches don't get processed as fast as you'd like.  I'm sorry for
> that.

Yes. This is my sole concern. Though we are all very busy, it is 
importance to have timely response to the community.

> So far, Scott has done a good job as custodian. As far as I remember,
> there have never been any complaints about his work.  Also, he assured
> me that he is willing to continue performing this duty, to the best of
> his capabilities.

Yes, I agree. Scott did a good job. Please keep on.

>>From the point of quality assurance it is always a good thing to have
> somebody else but the original author doing the final checking of the
> code.

Yes, it is good.

I think a custodian should also response early to patches with global 
changes like that of arch dir move and root Makefile cleanup.

> I would therefore like to continue working as we do now, with Scott as
> custodian, at least for the time being.  And I will try to keep an eye
> on the state of affairs for the NIOS patches.

I have two more mmc patches waiting for Andy's review,

05/03 [PATCH 1/3] lib: add crc7 from Linux
05/19 [PATCH 3/3 v8] mmc: add generic mmc spi driver

Once they get merged, I will update the nios wiki to use u-boot mainline 
instead of our local branch. Beside, we are going to add fdt to nios2 
linux, we will need your grand support.

Thank you very much for your attention. Thanks to Scott, too.

Best regards,
Thomas