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[Xiaofan Chen]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Pete Batard <pete at akeo.ie> wrote:
> On 2012.04.12 11:57, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> Regarding how to attract the users, my original idea is to
>> announce the fork after 1.0.9 release and reuse libusb
>> mailing list.
>
> The problem with that is that a fork is hostile.
> I think it would be quite inconsiderate to basically tell Peter: "Hey, we
> think you're doing a bad job, so we created a fork. Mind if we crash the
> libusb-devel mailing list with some potentially high volume traffic?".
>
>> It might be a bit "cruel" and "rude" but
>> take note Openusb people is also using libusb mailing list
>> even though it is a fork of the very original libusb-1.0
>> (not Daniel Drake's fsusb turned libusb-1.0).
>
> I don't mind being hostile (or rude, dammit!), but I'd still like to be
> decent during the course of hostilities. Also the expected amount of traffic
> makes a difference.

In reality I do not think that it will be that hostile in the
end. I still regard Peter as a nice gentleman and will
accept the fork and compete fairly with libusbx.

The only problem I have Peter is that he is not a good
maintainer, especially as the sole active maintainer.
He can be an excellent co-maintainer as he has some
good points in terms of code cleaning up and code
quality. That is why he is a positive side on OpenOCD
where he is a co-maintainer but not the lead one.

>> On the other
>> hand, I think Pete and others here will not agree with me
>> and would not announce the fork after a nice release (1.0.10)
>> and would not want to reuse libusb mailing list. That of course
>> has its own good point as well so I respect the decision.
>
>
> I'm a RERO man, so if anything I would have liked to announce it ASAP and
> get on with it. But I anticipated that we'd probably overlook stuff in
> 1.0.9, and lo and behold, we found that the README from the 1.0.9 tarball
> pointed to libusb, which would have looked quite bad for a first public
> release... All in all, I don't think it was that bad an idea to add another
> 2 weeks to cool our heads of and try to make a good first impression.
> This is even more crucial if you want people to take sides...

And that is why I do not voice my objections since I think it is
okay to wait for a few weeks or a few months now that we have
waited for more than a year for the fork.

-- 
Xiaofan