Hi,
On 18/11/16 13:02, Jagan Teki wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard@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" ;-)