Hi there all, Good news for the PyUSB users. As you know, I can't commit to PyUSB maintainership anymore and recently I started to look for a new maintainer.
Well, the day has come, Robert volunteered to become the new maintainer!!! First of all, I would like to say thank you to the community for the patience and for understanding my personal issues. Taking this decision wasn't easy, PyUSB started when I was still an undergraduate student, 12 years ago. At that time, I never had made a single contribution to an open source project and created PyUSB only because nobody had done it yet. The intention was just to have a tool to write quick prototypes for USB hardware I was responsible to write the device drivers to. I remember my thought at the time I decided to open source it: "Well, 6 billion people out there, there must be someone with the same problem as mine, let me put this horrible code in SourceForge and make his/er life less painful". The project just became popular at levels I was not expecting. But time passes and life moves on, I am not writing USB device drivers anymore and my free time to commit to the project is just not enough, given the user base size. Now I would like to say thank you to Robert for stepping in as the maintainer. I am pretty sure PyUSB will be in good hands and he is going to do a fantastic job. With this news, I moved the PyUSB repo to a new location [1]. PyUSB now is an organization. Hopefully, this will make easier for more people to become project maintainers. We are handling further details in short future. Last but not least, although Robert from this day is the person responsible to drive the project development, I am not washing my hands, I offered him my support in this transition for whatever assistance he needs. Also, I shared my thoughts on areas PyUSB needs the most attention, and I even might submit a patch or two as a contributor in the future. Well, that's it. Congratulations Robert, you are officially the PyUSB owner, have fun :) -- Best Regards, Wander Lairson Costa [1] https://github.com/pyusb/pyusb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ pyusb-users mailing list pyusb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyusb-users
