Syslinux - Oct 2015 - Call to become new committer/maintainer

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.

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

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