Hello,
it is more than time for a summary of the reactions to our proposal to split the U-Boot development into several subsystems and to share the responsibility for these in a group of "custodians". Here it comes:
1) The reaction was all positive. So we will take the next steps in that direction.
2) There was a general agreement that it would be beneficial to have all the custodian's (public) repositories located on the same server, so we willdo that. If nobody objects, we will host this on www.denx.de
We intend to name these repositories after their function (rather, for example, after the name of the custodian), so we don't have to modify anything in case there should be a change of the custodians.
3) It was no problem to find custodians for all suggested areas. Thanks a lot to all of you who volunteered!
You can find an overview about the current situation at http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Custodians
This also includes the suggested names for the git repositories. Please feel free to comment.
To avoid conflicts, I would like to establish a strict match between a repository and a custodian, i. e. each of the git repositories can be pushed into by exactly one custodian. As you can see, we already have mostly such matches, only for MIPS we have three instead of one volunteer.
It's really great to receive so much voluntary help, but in the end we can have only one custodian for MIPS. However, for me it is impossible to decide who to chose of Robert, Rodolfo or Hans. Can you please try to sort this out among the three of you, eventually with feedback from the list?
Custodians: can each of you please send me your public SSH keys? We will then set up the git repositories so we can get the whole thing rocking ASAP... [If you don't want to send it by e-mail, you can also use jabber: wd@jabber.denx.de].
Thanks in advance,
Wolfgang Denk