On 08/08/2018 03:54 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Again, this isn't fair. You cannot expect having to step up as a maintainer >> just because they are users of some code. > > Not every user has to step up, but someone has to step up. Someone > has to take care of the code, and using the fair-unfair approach, > it would not be fair to ask existing maintainers to maintain a target > they are not interested in either.
Again, I understand the problem, it's not the first time I am having such a discussion. There was a similar one regarding POWER5 support in Golang [1] and the SPE backend in gcc [2]. The problem is just that we are talking about code here that people are actively using so I'm not sure what the alternatives are. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19074 > [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81084 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
