[syslinux] Call to become new committer/maintainer

[Raphael S Carvalho]

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.

Regards,

>
> Thanks,
>
> Paulo
>
> --
> Paulo Alcantara, C.E.S.A.R
> Speaking for myself only.
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Raphael S. Carvalho