Moving on

Zev Weiss zev at bewilderbeest.net
Sat Aug 31 09:09:10 AEST 2024


Hi all,

I'm not sure if it's been all that noticeable, but I've been kind of
quiet on the OpenBMC front lately.  A pair of not-entirely-unrelated
points regarding that: (a) Equinix has decided to suspend development
work on OpenBMC, and (b) I've accepted an offer elsewhere (unrelated
to OpenBMC) and will be moving on from the company in two weeks.

I'll thus be stepping down from the TOF (due to inactivity I'm not
even eligible to run for the next term anyway) and relinquishing
maintainership of the small handful of things I'm currently listed in
OWNERS files for.

obmc-ikvm has two other owners listed (Eddie and Jae), though I don't
think I've seen much activity from either of them on it in a while, so
it may be in need of a new maintainer?

meta-delta I think may have one or two other commercial users out
there somewhere but I don't know of anyone who would take over
maintainership, so I expect it will be effectively orphaned.

meta-asrock sees sporadic interest and occasional activity from
hobbyists, and I could perhaps remain as a maintainer or reviewer in a
hobbyist capacity myself.

Unfortunately I assume this means my grand (if lately rather idle)
plans for omnisensor won't really go anywhere, unless someone else
feels like picking it up and running with it (if so I'd be happy to
help however I can).

To the best of my knowledge there are currently no plans to
discontinue the Equinix-sponsored CI servers, so they will remain
available for the foreseeable future.  Any questions regarding them
should be directed Ed Vielmetti (evielmetti at equinix.com).

It's been good working with you all -- though while I won't be
actively working on the project anymore, I'll probably still lurk on
discord and perhaps pipe up from time to time, for what it's worth.


Thanks,
Zev



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