[sane-devel] SANE2, time for a decision

[Frank Zago]

Hello Alessandro Zummo,
>  Hello sane developers,
>
>   Some weeks ago I introduced (once again) the discussion
>  about SANE future. Now is time to take action.
>
>   The situation is that we have coders willing to implement
>  the SANE2 standard (whatever this will be) for a bunch of backends
>  but are missing the people required to revamp sanei, the build
>  system and the frontends.
>
>   The standard itself is not complete, but this is something
>  that can be fixed.
>
>   However, we already have lost too much time in this limbo.
>   
Not even a decade :)

>  I would like to run a poll (suggestions for good poll web sites
>  are accepted) asking user and devs what they think about the
>  SANE future.
>
>  The poll options will be:
>
>  - Reopen development on SANE1
>  - Fork SANE1
>  - Wait SANE2 indefinitely
>   
Or "evolve a fork of SANE1 into SANE2".
>  I will gladly accept suggestions for other options
>  as long as they are credible. i.e. "Develop SANE2"
>  will not be accepted unless it includes a list of
>  developers that are going to make it happen.
>
>  I'm sorry for being a bit rough, but time is
>  passing by and we need to go somewhere.
>   
All it takes is a motivated person.
I can provide a some of my time to help, but I cannot commit to much.

I have found an e-mail I wrote a few years back, which remains so true
to me:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2003-August/008482.html

Frank.