Dear Dinh, In message <541373ad.4020...@opensource.altera.com> you wrote: > > Then I vote for myself as the custodian for u-boot-socfpga. By the way,
May I ask what made you change your mind like that? First you wrote that Vince was assigned to to that, and now it's suddenly you? As far as I can see, you have not participated in any SoCPGA related code reviews or discussions in 2014 at all, so what would be the difference? > what is the difference between a Maintainer and a custodian? I don't > understand why if Chin-Liang and myself are listed as Maintainer(s) for > SOCFPGA, we would have to rely on Marek to pull in our patches for SOCFPGA? A maintainer is someone who developed some piece of code and feels responsible for it - who is available as contact person for questions, or who will be asked to fix any bugs in that code. A Custodian is "one that guards and protects or maintains" [1], i. e. he is responsible for maintaining the design principles of U-Boot and the code quality even for code he did not work on himself, and for patches submitted by others. This is a job that carries a much higher responsibility than just maintaining your own code. He will interface to the actual maintainers of the respective code, negotiatiate solutions and decide in case of conflicts. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/custodian > Yes, this is the repo will be the one that we will use. I have a couple > of other things on my plate at the moment and will populate this repo > shortly. Thats great, as it means you will not lose any efforts when we start with u-boot-socfpga now, as you then can start with synchronized repositories right from the beginning. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
