[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Looking for a new Raspberry Pi image maintainer

Michael Stapelberg stapelberg at debian.org
Mon Jun 4 15:57:15 BST 2018


Answers inline:

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Arjen Balfoort <arjenbalfoort at solydxk.nl>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I just received this message and I'm sorry to hear that you're stopping. I
> understand, though. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work. I'm doing
> that now since 2013 and almost quit several times but after some very
> needed prioritizing I'm still able to maintain SolydXK.
>
> I also maintain a RPi image based on your image as a community edition. If
> you don't mind I will continue doing so. It's not a clean image as you
> built but perhaps it can be used as a base for others. I've started a
> testing topic on our forum for the next releases, including the RPi image,
> here: https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=7280. I could
> definitely use the help from the RPi community ;)
>
> Just let me know if that's okay or not.
>

I don’t have any issues with what you describe, but do note that you’ll be
basing your image on a (possibly, if nobody agrees to take over
maintainership) unmaintained image :)


>
> Regards,
> Arjen Balfoort
> Founder SolydXK
>
>
>
>
> On 06/04/2018 01:04 PM, Matthias Luescher wrote:
>
> Hi Michael
>
> On top of that, I realize that my commitments exceed my spare time
>> capacity, so I need to get rid of responsibilities.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for your great work you did for the Raspberry Pi images! It
> is sad to hear that you are stopping this effort but I can understand your
> reasoning.
>
>
Thanks, I’m glad you find it useful.


>
> Will you also stop to maintain the raspi3-firmware package?
>
> Yes. Maintaining raspi3-firmware was a vehicle for getting the image built
(for me).

>
> Best regards
> Matthias
>
>
>
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-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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