On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 03:16:04 PM, Tim Orling wrote: > 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.
https://github.com/yoctoproject and the github workflow is fine with me as long as I can commit to it from my @gmail identity. @tim do you want to import the current repository from intel? Then we can update the recipe in oe-core and go from there.
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