Re: [yocto] bmap-tools repository closes

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

Hi Artem,

On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 02:01:08 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hello Yocto community,
> 
> some parts of Yocto software (MIC?) use the 'bmap-tools' project to speed up
> image flashing.
> 
> https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools
> 
> I am the original author of the software, and I created it many years ago to
> speed up Tizen image flashing, and it helped a lot back at the time. It was also
> my first python project, so it was a lot of fun learning python while also
> creating something useful.

Thank you for your contribution, this tool has been quite useful for me over
the years.

> But after that, I stopped working on it and it was mostly Yocto folks who
> contributed changes here and there. I never had time and enough motivation to
> maintain the project further, but other folks helped.
> 
> Simon McVitte was active maintainer, but he said he does not have time for it
> now as well.
> 
> The project is in "github.com/intel" space, and Intel is going to archive the
> git repository soon. This basically means the repository becomes read-only soon.

Thank you for this update and letting us know ahead of time.

> Would Yocto community have enthusiasts to fork it and maintain the fork?

Yes, I'll volunteer to maintain it going forward. My non-stackoverflow python
knowledge is minimal, but I recently dug deeply into bmaptools to solve an
issue I had noticed. So I'm confident enough to take it over if nobody else is
interested.

Best regards,
	Trevor