On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 14:14 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > I still don't see the benefit here, what is this going to change? All the standard benefits of the GitHub organisations feature and collaborative maintenance in general; a single location for related projects, a stable location for projects that doesn't change as people come and go, a single location for patches to go rather than a collection of different forks, an easy way to continue maintenance when people move on, not losing the issue and pull request database every time there is a new fork, not having to change project name after forks (see libusbg vs libusbgx), a focal point that leads to more usage and code review as more people get involved. > If Debian hasn't already packaged up any of these, that's a huge > indication that no one actually uses them :) I assume Android have their own thing but Samsung use them in Tizen, Collabora use them and have a blog series on them. They haven't spread outside of that due to poor marketing, every other situation seems to use fiddly, manual and non-dynamic poking of files in configfs. https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/search-results.html?search=gadget&id=655&simplesearch_offset=0 > What projects are not in Debian already that somehow need to be > there? All the Linux USB gadget stuff is missing from most distributions; the core projects libusbg/libusbgx, gt, gadgetd and individual gadgets such as cmtp-responder, ptp-gadget etc. With non-Android Linux based phones (Pinephone & Librem) starting to get a bit of traction, packaging the core + gadgets is needed. -- bye, pabs https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/
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