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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

  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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