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YNvg== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.50.0-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:08:28 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/62451 On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 14:01 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hello Yocto community, >=20 > some parts of Yocto software (MIC?) use the 'bmap-tools' project to speed= up > image flashing. >=20 > https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools >=20 > 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 w= as also > my first python project, so it was a lot of fun learning python while als= o > creating something useful. >=20 > 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 motivatio= n to > maintain the project further, but other folks helped. >=20 > Simon McVitte was active maintainer, but he said he does not have time fo= r it > now as well. >=20 > 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-onl= y soon. >=20 > 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