Hi all, sorry for my late reply due to travel
I think that we should handle the HALS case by case for Espressif I am happy to hear about this decision and I can only hope that they will continue expanding and improving the open source initiative I propose that we open a discuss thread for each hal including a link to the curent location so that we can discuss howto handle it in my opinion having hals under ASF and habing HALS on a separate place as suggested by Alan can only bring more posibility for collaboration @Alan C. de Assis <[email protected]> I think that we should discuss about inviting commiters to PMC (that discussion should be handled on a separate thread on a different channel) Best regards Alin On Thu, 8 Oct 2026, 04:09 Binh Nguyen, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to share my perspective on this topic. > > First, I'd like to clarify that I have no objection to Espressif's > decision. If Espressif is comfortable donating ownership of their HAL and > moving it under ASF infrastructure, I fully respect that choice. > > Open-source communities are usually built around collaboration, > governance, and shared maintenance, not around forcing contributors to > transfer ownership of their code. > > If donating ownership becomes the expected model, we may solve the > Espressif case but unintentionally make it harder for other vendors to > participate in the future. I believe we should optimize for attracting > contributors, not increasing contribution barriers. > > Thanks, > Binh > >
