From: Sinan Akman <sinan@writeme.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2] boards.cfg: move many unmaintained boards to Orphan
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:41:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BA123B.3030805@writeme.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140624173418.GI9006@bill-the-cat>
Hi Tom
On 06/24/2014 01:34 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:13:06AM -0400, Sinan Akman wrote:
>>
>> Hi Masahiro
>>
>> Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> Hi Sinan,
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> +Orphan powerpc mpc83xx - freescale
>>>> mpc837xerdb MPC837XERDB
>>>>
>>>> I have this board and I would very much like that it'll continue to
>>>> be maintained. I just tested the ToT and it seems other than some minor
>>>> warnings and request to use generic-board it is not in a bad shape.
>>>>
>>>> I can continue testing at each release and after there are related
>>>> patches. Would that help to have this board to be unorphaned ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for offering to test this board.
>>> Are you willing to be a maintainer of this board?
>>
>> Sure I'd be bappy if I could. I don't know what it takes
>> exactly and not sure if I would qualify.
>
> Testing every release and fixing problems (and asking for help when you
> need it to fix the problems) is all that's required. If you would send
> two patches, one to take over the maintainership and a second to convert
> to generic board (or find there's a problem with that and get the
> discussion started on what to do about it), that will do it.
I just sent a patch for generic board support for mpc837xerdb.
I also cc'ed it to Kim Phillips as he is listed as mpc83xx custodian.
I have the mpc837x board and I'd like to maintain it. Should I send
now also a patch to take over the maintainership ?
Thanks
Sinan Akman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-17 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 7:30 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] boards.cfg: move many unmaintained boards to Orphan Masahiro Yamada
2014-06-05 9:28 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2014-06-15 4:25 ` Sinan Akman
2014-06-05 22:48 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2014-06-24 3:13 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-06-24 5:13 ` Sinan Akman
2014-06-24 17:34 ` Tom Rini
2015-01-17 7:41 ` Sinan Akman [this message]
2015-01-17 15:32 ` Tom Rini
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