Dear Dinh,
In message 541373AD.4020902@opensource.altera.com you wrote:
Then I vote for myself as the custodian for u-boot-socfpga. By the way,
May I ask what made you change your mind like that? First you wrote that Vince was assigned to to that, and now it's suddenly you? As far as I can see, you have not participated in any SoCPGA related code reviews or discussions in 2014 at all, so what would be the difference?
what is the difference between a Maintainer and a custodian? I don't understand why if Chin-Liang and myself are listed as Maintainer(s) for SOCFPGA, we would have to rely on Marek to pull in our patches for SOCFPGA?
A maintainer is someone who developed some piece of code and feels responsible for it - who is available as contact person for questions, or who will be asked to fix any bugs in that code.
A Custodian is "one that guards and protects or maintains" [1], i. e. he is responsible for maintaining the design principles of U-Boot and the code quality even for code he did not work on himself, and for patches submitted by others. This is a job that carries a much higher responsibility than just maintaining your own code. He will interface to the actual maintainers of the respective code, negotiatiate solutions and decide in case of conflicts.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/custodian
Yes, this is the repo will be the one that we will use. I have a couple of other things on my plate at the moment and will populate this repo shortly.
Thats great, as it means you will not lose any efforts when we start with u-boot-socfpga now, as you then can start with synchronized repositories right from the beginning.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk