Re: BCM2835 maintainership

From: Stefan Wahren
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 12:52:05 EST


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?