Re: [yocto] bmap-tools repository closes

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 14:01 +0200, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Would Yocto community have enthusiasts to fork it and maintain the fork?

Thanks for reaching out to us, it is good to do this proactively rather
than seeing it sit unmaintained. There is interest within the Yocto
Project community to take this on so we'd like to take up that offer
thanks!

There are a few details we're working through but I did want to say
this publicly and also to say thanks for reaching out.

Cheers,

Richard