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. Thanks, Paulo -- Paulo Alcantara, C.E.S.A.R Speaking for myself only.
Raphael S Carvalho
2015-Sep-02 02:40 UTC
[syslinux] Call to become new committer/maintainer
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. > _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux >-- Raphael S. Carvalho
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. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven