Cannot install atenpdu==0.3.2 about core HOT 13 OPEN

Just trying to be clear, I don't mean to be offensive

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Hey there @mtdcr, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (aten_pe) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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I'm also getting this issue.

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Someone needs to bump the dependency and test it out

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I have tested the code owner's HACS repo with the PE8108G (latest firmware: 2.4.239), and it's working fine. However, the owner appears to have been inactive for a few months...

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If your issue is around the custom integration, this isn't the place to get support

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Just sharing some information for someone who's desperately looking to integrate a PDU right now, man... Why so offensive? I'm also having trouble with the official integration.

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I have tested the code owner's HACS repo with the PE8108G (latest firmware: 2.4.239), and it's working fine. However, the owner appears to have been inactive for a few months...

I'd recommend to keep using the HACS repo, as I don't intend to maintain two versions, and trying to maintain the version included in Home Assistant hasn't been a delightful experience to me. Of course I'd be fine with any attempt by others to merge the HACS version into Home Assistant, but I won't invest much time myself.

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@mtdcr mind having a chat on discord? I'd love to hear your pain and try to help you with them

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@mtdcr mind having a chat on discord? I'd love to hear your pain and try to help you with them

No, sorry, I'm not on discord. To sum it up, there were too many occurrences of "Thank you for your contribution, but we force you to do this huge unrelated extra task before we accept your small incremental improvement" paired with too many pointless discussion in the area of networking and security basics. My time is limited.

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Is there any way I can help you out with these tasks?

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For this specific issue:

• Take https://github.com/mtdcr/homeassistant-aten-pe/tree/main/custom_components/aten_pe and merge it into Home Assistant. Fill in the missing bits (at least some kind of tests, i guess - see #61806 for a past failed attempt). I'll gladly accept PRs to my repository in order to test any required changes in advance.

More generally (IMO the more desirable way of helping), in case you (as in "the maintainers of Home Assistant") want to create a more welcoming space:

• Stop forcing contributors to maintain code repositories and releases for libraries used exclusively by Home Assistant. Let them decide what's best for their integration. This is the reason why this very issue exists. atenpdu broke multiple times already, because Home Assistant at some point in time updated or replaced its pysnmp dependency to incompatible versions without patching atenpdu at the same time (or giving a heads up at least). This could have been easily done tree-wide if the few relevant lines of code in atenpdu were part of the integration.
• Accept imperfect contributions, especially for new integrations. Let there be space for incremental improvement. Accept that people will choose the way of least resistance eventually. If the hurdles are too high for a few-weekends-per-year pet project, many developers will just give up and find a different solution (like HACS, keeping their code to themselves or moving to an entirely different system).
• Stop closing issues with a bot. Issues do not disappear magically due to inactivity. Yes, some problems disappear unnoticed, but not those where most of the issue comments only get written to stop the bot until everybody just gives up. That's just rude.

These are examples of failed PRs I submitted in the past, that wasted a considerable amount of my and other people's lifetime and killed most of my motivation (just in case you're interested, I don't intend to warm these up):

• #27961
• #36168 (2nd attempt)
• #38533

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From your comments I feel like you disagree with the goals of the project. I can't help you with that. I personally strive for consistent and good Integrations that make use of best practices.

If the problem was that you couldn't get the config flow in, I'd gladly help you with that, but I feel like you've given up so I don't feel like investing time either.

I take your other comments with me. I probably can't act on them, but it's interesting for me to see why people don't like contributing to core.

But let's not continue this discussion about contributing to core in this issue as this issue is meant for aten_pe

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