On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi All,
A while back I wrote:
"Between my $dayjob, linux-sunxi, other foss projects and last but not least spending time with my wife and children I'm way too busy lately.
So I've decided to seriously scale back my involvement in linux-sunxi, as such I'm going to step down as u-boot sunxi custodian."
After that I did get some breathing room, and kept doing sunxi u-boot maintenance until now, but this still feels too much like a job rather then a hobby. The problem is that I don't want to think during the weekend: "Oh !@#$ 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.
I just want to thank you for all the time and effort you've put in on U-Boot you've put in. We would not be where we are today without what you've done, so once again, thanks!