Re: [Libusb-devel] libusb project -- what is the way forward

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@st...> wrote:
>> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>>> I am a bit tired to see all the arguments here without seeing any
>>> real progress of the project regarding the Windows backend
>>> integration.
>>
>> Even though there is not a flood of commits related to Windows code
>> within libusb.git I feel very strongly that progress is being made.
>>
>> I agree that arguments tend to be lengthy. But it is not all bad, I
>> for one think that my understanding improves constantly.
>>
>>
>>> When Peter became the maintainer .. I was hoping that the
>>> Windows backend integration would speed up and once
>>> Peter also mentioned about a release within 2010. Now
>>> it is 2001.
>>
>> Sometimes things don't go as planned. The current state of libusb
>> code is better than ever, the push to libusb-stuge.git I did just
>> now (most of it already yesterday) is what I propose for libusb.git,
>> and with these commits I think it's time for a 1.0.9 tag.
>>
>
> Just wondering when there will be a 1.0.9 release?
> I think the libusb-stuge patches plus a few patches
> from Pete will bring 1.0.9 release. Or am I missing
> something?

Another month has passed and there is no action
from Peter. I am wondering how many more month
it will require to have a 1.0.9 release.

Now I have two proposals after some private discussions
with a few interested parties.

First proposal: to have someone as release manager
(project manager) overseeing the 1.0.9 release, this
person can not be Peter. Or have someone taking
over from Peter as the lead admin of the project. My
proposal is have Peter as the Linux platform maintainer,
Pete as the Windows platform maintainer and Nathan
as the Mac OS X maintainer. And then Daniel (if he
has the time) and the new project manager to take
charge of the core and resolve the differences between
platform maintainers.

Second proposal: if the above does not work out and nothing
comes out within three months (until 15-July-2011),
we may choose to fork libusb-1.0, actually fork from
libusb-pbatard branch.

Any comments? Any more proposals? In any case, I think
the current situation is not healthy to move libusb-1.0
forward.

I know I am not an admin nor do I contribute much to
the codes side (I do contribute on the testing side), but I do
have a strong interest to see libusb-1.0 moving forward, so
do many people in the list.

-- 
Xiaofan