Dear Haavard Skinnemoen,
In message 20100809132949.43c81f64@hskinnemoen-d830 you wrote:
But it does seem kind of rude to just hand everything off without Cc'ing any of the maintainers in question. Perhaps they would respond more quickly if people actually send e-mail to them?
Rude? send e-mail to them?
It's not that I'm going to hand off (note that nothing has happened yet) anything from any active custodian.
First, I have poked them a number of times, both on and off list.
Second, they are subscribed to this list, and supposed to read the traffic. Especially if addresses directly in the Subject they should notice that, right?
Third, there have been patches posted that clearly fall in their domain, and there is zero response: no comment, no activity in the custodian directory, no pull request, nothing.
Finally, I have to admit that I have been a bit sceptic right from the beginning to assign custodianship to someone who has no track record as developer in the community. But obviously Atmel would be in the best positition to provide decent support for their chips. At least that was my hope.
I am seriously sick with the current situation. We have a number of AT91 and AVR32 related patches sitting there with nobody taking care of them. No life signs of any custodian or anybody else from Atmel.
But then there are people available who are actively working with these chips, who post fixes and other patches, and who even volunteer to take the burden of maintaining the tree.
Guess what I'll do? Continue to wait that some vendor wakes up?
Btw, I'm not ranting at you, Mike. Thanks for letting me know about the discussion, although I would have preferred a bit more context...
For the record, the thread seems to be this one, but I seem to be unable to find the start of it...
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-August/074769.html
Just have a look at the "References:" headers, and look up the first one in gmane - just append the message ID to http://mid.gmane.org/
==> http://mid.gmane.org/4C50E124.2000807@emk-elektronik.de
==> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/81812
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk