Thank you Wander for the warm welcome and opportunity to be the PyUSB owner!
I would like to thank Wander for starting this project and bringing it so
far in 12 years. Without Wander's effort to kickstart this project, those
working with USB would need to go through much heavy lifting. This project
has enabled the Python community to work with USB-based hardware in a
straight forward fashion. I appreciate Wander's continued support during
the transition.
As is the case with folks in this community, PyUSB is an important part of
my work. For systems that I've developed and worked on, it is used
extensively in automated scenarios to control various measurement
instruments. Ensuring that this project remains well supported and growing
the community is an important part of the Python community that uses USB
hardware.
I appreciate the confidence Wander has placed in me and hope to deliver on
this confidence. I'd also like to echo Wander's call for more people to
become project maintainers. If you're interested in being a co-maintainer,
please let me know.
Once again, thank you Wander for the opportunity to be the owner of PyUSB
and for initiating the project and community!
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Wander Lairson Costa <
wander.lair...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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