Hans, Thank you for all your hard work over the years. Like many users we greatly appreciate everything you have done and the tremendous support you provided for the ivtv related hardware.
-Jeff Campbell On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > As many of you on the ivtv mailinglists no doubt noticed my contributions > to > the ivtv driver have become minimal in the past year. The main reason for > this > are my increasingly time consuming efforts in adding support for the > complex > video subsystems on System-on-a-Chip devices. Especially the past 6 months > have been very busy and I've decided to cut down on some responsibilities. > One of those is my ivtv maintainership. > > Luckily Andy Walls has become a lot more active with all things ivtv and he > graciously accepted my offer to become the next ivtv maintainer. He already > maintains the cx18 driver and since the two drivers have a lot in common it > makes sense to maintain both of them. > > I expect to finalize the maintainership transfer in January. There isn't > much > to do, mostly some ivtvdriver.org administrative stuff. One thing I want > to do, > though, is to post a list of ideas/todos that never happened for ivtv but > that > might be interesting to either Andy or (who knows?) someone else. I'll do > this > in January as well. > > I'm of course available for questions, and I might still do the occasional > ivtv > updates (after all, I am still very active in the v4l subsystem!). But I'm > no > longer the main contact person for this driver. > > It's been quite a ride: my first ivtv emails went out end of July 2003, > almost > six-and-a-half years ago. The first patch I emailed went out exactly 6 > years > ago to the day as far as I can tell. Initially I worked on adding VBI > support > to ivtv because I wanted to record the PAL widescreen signal and reproduce > it > when decoding the MPEG stream on my PVR-350. This seemed easy but turned > out > to be a huge job. > > Around summer 2005 I took over from Chris Kennedy as maintainer with the > goal > of merging ivtv into the linux kernel, something that was finally done by > the > end of 2007 and the 2.6.22 kernel release. The ivtvfb driver was merged in > 2.6.24 and the last saa717x i2c driver was merged in 2.6.26 in summer 2008. > So in all the whole process took three years. The 2.6.26 kernel also merged > the cx18 driver which I developed in 2007. > > However, in spring 2008 I started working on SoCs and that has snowballed > into > something much bigger. So after being maintainer for about 4 1/2 years it > is > time to hand it over to Andy. > > An unexpected side-effect of doing open source development like this is > that > it is a unique selling point on your resumé (aka CV). It definitely boosted > my career. So besides being a lot of fun, it actually has 'real-life' > benefits > as well! I am in the unique position now that my day time job and my v4l > work > sometimes seem to blend together. That would never have happened if I > didn't > start this journey over six years ago. > > Special thanks go to Kevin Thayer, the original ivtv author, and Chris > Kennedy, > my predecessor. Thanks for all the work you did! > > I also like to thank Axel Thimm for providing a home for ivtv, John > Drescher > for being the mailinglist gatekeeper, Ian Armstrong for maintaining the > ivtv > X driver, Steven Toth for all the support that Hauppauge gave me and Mauro > Chehab for all the help he gave me merging the driver into the kernel. > > And of course I'd like to thank Andy for taking over this job. I hope open > source development will be as much fun for you as it is for me, Andy! > > Thank you all for your support over the years, and I wish everyone a very > happy New Year! > > Best regards, > > Hans > > -- > Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
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