[syslinux] Call to become new committer/maintainer

[Paulo Alcantara]

On Oct 7, 2015 10:25 PM, "Celelibi via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> 2015-10-08 0:16 UTC+02:00, Geert Stappers via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com
>:
> > 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 at 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.
> >
>
> I think the original mail was just a badly formulated anouncement.
> Here are the few lines that happened on IRC just before he sent that
> mail.
>
> 2015 sept. 02 00:56:33 <hpa>    It's pretty clear Gene can't be the
> sole patch maintainer, and I literally can't because of my current
> personal situation.  I'd personally be happy to open it up to anyone
> who has been a significant contributor in the past, because the
> alternative is that the project dies.
> 2015 sept. 02 00:56:46 <hpa>    pcacjr: would you be interested in that
role?
> 2015 sept. 02 01:12:04 <pcacjr> hpa: yeah
> 2015 sept. 02 01:13:40 <pcacjr> currently I'm having some free time to
> hack other stuffs I'm working and I'd certainly be able to do this
> 2015 sept. 02 01:17:05 <hpa>    Could you post something to the
> mailing list perhaps?
> 2015 sept. 02 01:19:58 <pcacjr> hpa: about taking over
> "maintainership" of Syslinux?
> 2015 sept. 02 01:22:45 <hpa>    Or call it becoming a committer
> 2015 sept. 02 01:23:09 <pcacjr> hpa: OK
>
>
> I'll let him confirm, but I think it has been approved and done already.
>

Yes. Both hpa and Gene gave their approval already. Regarding the commit
access, I havent pushed anything yet but I do believe it's all set up. I
wont have access to my machine for a few days so I couldnt test it right
now, sorry.

Paulo

>
> Celelibi
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