On 12/20/2023 5:21 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:The maintainers listed can no longer meet the expectations of the community. Hence changing the status to Orphan. Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- When joining Broadcom 13 years ago and assigned to work on upstreaming our wifi drivers it was a fun job. Getting it in shape to remedy John Linville's eye-ball cancer from the first look at it and adding stuff after getting it out of staging with Greg's blessing. Setting up a Jenkins CI rig to nightly test the chips we support. Refactoring the driver to pave the road for new features. Those days it was backed up by the company because there were paying customers demanding it. When that support ended I decided to hang on and play my role as a maintainer because I cared and could not let go. That was probably a mistake from which I can only learn. Hopefully I can stay involved as a valued reviewer, but I somehow doubt that. Too much emotions stir that I need to vent, but it would only put more oil on this stupid flame war.I am so sad about this but I fully understand your decision. You have the best knowledge of Broadcom devices and you were involved with brcm80211 from the beginning. I can guess how difficult lately it has been for you to find time for upstream work but even still you replied to my mails and tried to support the community the best you can, which I appreciated so much. Everyone else in the corporate world usually just ignore, you did not do that.
Hi Kalle,Maybe I should reconsider, because it feels a bit like high school and the bullies won. I agreed that I can not meet expectations and the main aspect being testing patch series on fair amount of devices. Do you think we can address that with some help? For instance by reaching out to several people in the community that use brcmfmac and ask them if they are willing to regularly test on wireless-testing. My experience with community members is not so great as they tend to loose interest and move on, but it may be worth a try. Let me know what you think.
Regards, Arend
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