Hi, On 18/11/16 13:02, Jagan Teki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Maxime Ripard > <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> A while back I wrote: >>> >>> "Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but >>> not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too >>> busy lately. >>> >>> So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in >>> linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi >>> custodian." > > Hans, thanks for all your great work.
+1 for Hans' good work! >>> >>> After that I did get some breathing room, and kept doing >>> sunxi u-boot maintenance until now, but this still feels >>> too much like a job rather then a hobby. The problem is >>> that I don't want to think during the weekend: >>> "Oh !@#$ I still need to prep a u-boot sunxi pull-req" >>> >>> This is nothing against the u-boot community, I think >>> you're all great and I still love thinkering with this >>> kind of stuff, but when a hobby starts feeling as a chore >>> something is wrong. >>> >>> So after this mail I'm going to send a mail updating >>> the MAINTAINERS status of sunxi to orphan and I will also >>> unsubscribe myself from the u-boot list to protect myself >>> against getting dragged in again. >>> >>> I do expect (after taking a break for a couple of weeks) >>> that I will likely submit the occasional patch, but at >>> this point in time I do not want any maintainer >>> responsibilities. >>> >>> Yesterday and today I've gone over my pending patches >>> queue, reviewed then all and I've merged all the ones >>> which looked good into u-boot-sunxi/next, so that >>> should be a good starting point for the next >>> maintainer. >> >> Thanks a lot for the great work you did over those years :) >> >>> Jagan (in the Cc) has indicated in the past that he is >>> interested in taking over as sunxi custodian, Jagan already >>> is the SPI custodian, so I believe that he will do well. >>> >>> So Jagan, if you still want the job, go for it. > > OK, Hans thanks for believing my work - will try my best. > >> >> As I said before, I can help whoever is willing to take over by >> becoming co-maintainer for some time, in order to make the transition >> as smooth as possible. >> >> Jagan, are you still willing to do this? > > Yes, Maxime I will do this, please help me for initial transition and > technical details if any. > Can I get any board sample from any all-winner or related communities? Feel free to send any 64-bit (A64, H64, H5) related questions/patches into my direction. I can test stuff, also give advice and do reviews. Cheers, Andre. P.S. I was thinking about stepping up here, but would end up in the same situation as Hans quicker than one could say "Allwinner" ;-) _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
