Re: [yocto] bmap-tools repository closes

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 03:16:04 PM, Tim Orling wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ya, it's an awesome tool and a huge time saver for us, so can also
> > help maintain it
> >
> 
> We can probably move it under the https://github.com/yoctoproject umbrella?
> I can also help maintain this tremendous time saver.

https://github.com/yoctoproject and the github workflow is fine with me as
long as I can commit to it from my @gmail identity.

@tim do you want to import the current repository from intel? Then we can
update the recipe in oe-core and go from there.