On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 11:59:01AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > Hey all, > > First, I am not happy to be writing this email. But at this point, I > feel I have no other choice, for the good of the overall project and > community. > > Back in January[0] of this year I made a post with almost this same > subject line. At that point there had already been a number of problems > working with Simon and the overall community. I did not include a list > of links. At that point the easiest answer would be to go to the mailing > list archive, pick any thread that Simon and I had and see the long > disagreements. This trend has fundamentally not changed. And while I > started this out with some threads and my summaries of them, instead I > want to point to this email I sent this mornig: > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250528170533.GE100073@bill-the-cat/ > > And to repeat what I said there, Simon needs to decide if it's more > important to work with the community or have his way every time. Simon > cannot have both. Simon needs to accept that some things he think are > good ideas have been rejected or he needs to fork off from U-Boot. Or he > can ask the community to take over as the project head. If the community > wants Simon to run things, I will step down and just be an individual > contributor again. Five months of this experiment shows me that it's not > working at all and will only be a bigger problem as time goes on. > > And, I mean it. I cannot take the additional stress of what new problems > await me every morning. I do not take the above lightly, but I do not > think the project can become healthy moving forward without some > resolution here and quickly. While I won't claim my time as the head of > the project has been perfect, I have tried my best to always be honest > and fair and to seek compromise. > > With respect to voting, would anyone volunteer to run a poll from > https://civs1.civs.us/ (which is used by the Yocto Project / > OpenEmbedded and likely other FOSS projects/communities) ?
I've since had emails with Simon and while he said he will send something in public himself, for now he's going to take a break from the project. I believe that as a community we need to figure out some things as a follow-up here, but that belongs in its own thread which I will do probably on Monday. Thanks for your understanding everyone. -- Tom
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