[spam] software responsibility

Karl gmkarl at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 10:05:12 PDT 2021


1259

The pull request is #874 at https://github.com/libusb/libusb/pull/874 .  I
wrote a basic android backend for libusb in like a forced clarity burst for
another project.

libusb is starved for maintainers, and by the time anybody got to it I was
in a different state of mind.  long story short, it is now _very_ hard for
me to engage, has missing functionality and disorganization but is still a
huge improvement on the in-tree android situation, and works just barely
well enough for a lot of people to use.

a few months back, while my pr was still in review, a developer committed
some changes to the main tree that broke all nonrooted android
functionality, even the old stuff still in the main tree.  the changes
engaged the same option handling code I extended to add android java
interaction.

1303p

second long story short, a new maintainer from debian finally merged in an
adhoc fix for the breaking changes.  my pr was on pause, because I didn't
know what the final fix would end up looking like.  it ended up looking
like whatever the last proposal happened to be, because nobody was around
to comment on design choices, which is an interesting thing to add to one's
experiences.

1305p
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