On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Artem, > > > > On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 02:01:08 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > Hello Yocto community, > > > > > > some parts of Yocto software (MIC?) use the 'bmap-tools' project to > speed up > > > image flashing. > > > > > > https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools > > > > > > I am the original author of the software, and I created it many years > ago to > > > speed up Tizen image flashing, and it helped a lot back at the time. > It was also > > > my first python project, so it was a lot of fun learning python while > also > > > creating something useful. > > > > Thank you for your contribution, this tool has been quite useful for me > over > > the years. > > > > > But after that, I stopped working on it and it was mostly Yocto folks > who > > > contributed changes here and there. I never had time and enough > motivation to > > > maintain the project further, but other folks helped. > > > > > > Simon McVitte was active maintainer, but he said he does not have time > for it > > > now as well. > > > > > > The project is in "github.com/intel" space, and Intel is going to > archive the > > > git repository soon. This basically means the repository becomes > read-only soon. > > > > Thank you for this update and letting us know ahead of time. > > > > > Would Yocto community have enthusiasts to fork it and maintain the > fork? > > > > Yes, I'll volunteer to maintain it going forward. My non-stackoverflow > python > > knowledge is minimal, but I recently dug deeply into bmaptools to solve > an > > issue I had noticed. So I'm confident enough to take it over if nobody > else is > > interested. > > Ya, it's an awesome tool and a huge time saver for us, so can also > help maintain it > We can probably move it under the https://github.com/yoctoproject umbrella? I can also help maintain this tremendous time saver. —Tim > > > > > Best regards, > > Trevor > > > > > > > > > >
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