linux-kernel - Re: BCM2835 maintainership

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Message-ID: <6487c38c-505e-99df-2451-c3da4cb02c94@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:03:47 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>,
        Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
Subject: Re: BCM2835 maintainership

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.
-- 
Florian