[pyusb-users] PyUSB backlog

[Wander L. C. <wan...@gm...>]

Hi there all,

I just would like to let you know why pyusb development has been
stalled for a while. As you might know, I develop pyusb in my free
time.

This year things has been quite busy in work, not in terms the work
hours, but on concentration energy. I work for Mozilla and I was on
the team responsible to Migrate OSX Firefox automated tests to
Taskcluster [1]. This was a very hard project that devoted my full
attention.

Besides that, (and even more important) a couple of years ago I found
out I suffer from GAD [2] and Depression, and have been treating it
through medication and therapy since then. For the last past year
things got really worse, so all energy I had left was canalized to
keep up with my main job, leaving almost nothing for side projects.

As you might know, mental disorders are not fully understood by
medicine and treatment takes time to have effects, and it is a role
coaster in terms of progress. So you might expect a large variance in
development speed ratio.

I am so sorry for all you who is impacted by unsolved issues and slow
responses. I hope July or August slowly come back to work on PyUSB.

Finally, I intend to continue pyusb development within my health
capacity, but this a project belonging to OSS/Free Software (pick
whatever you prefer), so, if there is someone with more time
volunteering to lead the project, I am willing to step away as main
maintainer for the sake of project.

 [1] https://docs.taskcluster.net
 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_anxiety_disorder

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Best Regards,
Wander Lairson Costa