From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:48:43 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] Stepping down as sunxi u-boot custodian (for real this time) In-Reply-To: References: <41d484ce-4dfa-803e-c8d8-a216ee78f987@redhat.com> <20161117221843.5vllwto7rxifj7cc@lukather> <2b4f3f63-8524-7161-12fa-87fbf7b88cda@arm.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi, On 18-11-16 16:48, Jagan Teki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Andre Przywara wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 18/11/16 13:02, Jagan Teki wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Maxime Ripard >>> wrote: >>>> Hi Hans, >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> A while back I wrote: >>>>> >>>>> "Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but >>>>> not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too >>>>> busy lately. >>>>> >>>>> So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in >>>>> linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi >>>>> custodian." >>> >>> Hans, thanks for all your great work. >> >> +1 for Hans' good work! >> >>>>> >>>>> After that I did get some breathing room, and kept doing >>>>> sunxi u-boot maintenance until now, but this still feels >>>>> too much like a job rather then a hobby. The problem is >>>>> that I don't want to think during the weekend: >>>>> "Oh !@#$ I still need to prep a u-boot sunxi pull-req" >>>>> >>>>> This is nothing against the u-boot community, I think >>>>> you're all great and I still love thinkering with this >>>>> kind of stuff, but when a hobby starts feeling as a chore >>>>> something is wrong. >>>>> >>>>> So after this mail I'm going to send a mail updating >>>>> the MAINTAINERS status of sunxi to orphan and I will also >>>>> unsubscribe myself from the u-boot list to protect myself >>>>> against getting dragged in again. >>>>> >>>>> I do expect (after taking a break for a couple of weeks) >>>>> that I will likely submit the occasional patch, but at >>>>> this point in time I do not want any maintainer >>>>> responsibilities. >>>>> >>>>> Yesterday and today I've gone over my pending patches >>>>> queue, reviewed then all and I've merged all the ones >>>>> which looked good into u-boot-sunxi/next, so that >>>>> should be a good starting point for the next >>>>> maintainer. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot for the great work you did over those years :) >>>> >>>>> Jagan (in the Cc) has indicated in the past that he is >>>>> interested in taking over as sunxi custodian, Jagan already >>>>> is the SPI custodian, so I believe that he will do well. >>>>> >>>>> So Jagan, if you still want the job, go for it. >>> >>> OK, Hans thanks for believing my work - will try my best. >>> >>>> >>>> As I said before, I can help whoever is willing to take over by >>>> becoming co-maintainer for some time, in order to make the transition >>>> as smooth as possible. >>>> >>>> Jagan, are you still willing to do this? >>> >>> Yes, Maxime I will do this, please help me for initial transition and >>> technical details if any. >>> Can I get any board sample from any all-winner or related communities? >> >> Feel free to send any 64-bit (A64, H64, H5) related questions/patches >> into my direction. I can test stuff, also give advice and do reviews. > > Thanks. > > Hans, I see few redundant commits on next wrt latest master in b/w, > can you point me diff commits which needs to send PR? I tried of > comparing but not get the exact result. If you checkout u-boot-sunxi/next and then do a "git rebase u-boot/master" git should give you a new next branch, with the already merged commits removed. Regards, Hans