Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Anholt <> | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:23:43 -0800 | Subject | Re: BCM2835 maintainership |
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:03 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/21/19 9:51 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > > Hi Florian, > > > > Am 21.11.19 um 18:42 schrieb Florian Fainelli: > >> On 11/21/19 1:56 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > >>> Am 20.11.19 um 22:54 schrieb Florian Fainelli: > >>>> On 11/20/19 3:38 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > >>>>> Hello, > >>>>> > >>>>> i need to announce that i step back as BCM2835 maintainer with the end > >>>>> of this year. Maintainership was a fun ride, but at the end i noticed > >>>>> that it needed more time for doing it properly than my available spare time. > >>>>> > >>>>> Nicolas Saenz Julienne is pleased be my successor and i wish him all the > >>>>> best on his way. > >>>>> > >>>>> Finally i want to thank all the countless contributors and maintainers > >>>>> for helping to integrate the Raspberry Pi into the mainline Kernel. > >>>> Thanks Stefan, it has been great working with you on BCM2835 > >>>> maintenance. Do you mind making this statement official with a > >>>> MAINTAINERS file update? > >>> Sure, but first we should define the future BCM2835 git repo. I like to > >>> hear Eric's opinion about that, since he didn't step back. > >> How about we move out of github.com/Broadcom/stblinux as well as Eric's > >> tree and get a group maintained repository on kernel.org, something like > >> kernel/git/broadcom/linux.git? > >> > >> Then we can continue the existing processe whereby BCM2835 gets pulled > >> into other Broadcom SoC pull requests. > >> > >> How does that sound? > > this sounds like a good idea. In case the others agree too, can you take > > care of it? > > Certainly, let me work through the process and I will let you know if > that could work.
This all sounds fine to me, though since I'm not active any more we should probably drop me out of MAINTAINERS while we're doing this shuffle, too.
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