[syslinux] Call to become new committer/maintainer

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:40:14PM -0300, Raphael S Carvalho via Syslinux wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Paulo Alcantara via Syslinux <
> syslinux op zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Paulo Alcantara. I've been working on BIOS/UEFI firmware and
> > file systems development for a long time already. For those does not
> > know, in the past few years I used to be an active Syslinux contributor
> > and added support to NTFS and XFS file systems, GSoC mentor for
> > Syslinux in 2012, did some bugfixes and some code refactoring (e.g. x86
> > assembly to pure C) and currently working on multifs support for both
> > UEFI and BIOS.
> >
> > Syslinux was one the first (and the best, IMO) open source projects I
> > ever worked on and it's *really* sad to see it dying slowly due to no
> > enough time (or any other personal-related thing) from both HPA and
> > Genec sides. We've seen a lot of patches on the mailing lists that did
> > not get chance to be either reviewed or applied and that means we will
> > potentially loose a lot contributions -- or even worse, contributors.
> >
> > Therefore, I'm here to call to become the new committer/maintainer of
> > the Syslinux project and help the project as much as I can on
> > reviewing/applying patches, tracking and fixing bugs, supporting new
> > contributors and the project itself.
> >
> Congratulations! Syslinux will benefit a lot from your maintenance.
> 

What I observed:

 * Some one steps forward and says: I want to be committer/maintainer
 * there is a congratution
 * there were no objections
 * and silence


I wonder if Paulo now has the privileges/rights/power
for bringing Syslinux in better shape.



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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