[sane-devel] Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi all,

m. allan noah writes:

> I agree with merging the png/jpg improvements, thanks for working on
> that. The other branches look fine at first glance. I'll merge most or
> all of this tomorrow, when I finally get some free time.

Thanks, the number of branches is getting a bit unwieldy ;-)

I finished going through all the unassigned bugs.  Phew!  There were 195
when I started, now there's only 104 left.  That does not mean that 91
tickets got closed of course, just that they got assigned or closed.

For two of them I created new pu/ branches:

 - pu/fix-compiler-warnings-314515 (security issue: out-of-bounds array
   access)
 - pu/fix-option-descriptor-size-value-314975

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen
> <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> Hi again devs,
>>
>> Remember, 2015-09-19 is feature freeze day.  That's only about 90
>> minutes away from where I'm at, but I hope that we can sneak in last
>> minute features till the end of that day ;-)
>>
>> Please take a look at any of the branches I mentioned below.  I also
>> added a few:
>>
>>  - pu/scanimage-png-jpeg-v4 adds PNG and JPEG image file format output
>>    support to scanimage
>>  - pu/add-hu.po-313073 add Hungarian translations
>>  - pu/ja.po-fixes-31385 for a few fixes to the Japanese translations
>>  - pu/man-pages-fixes-314280-314282 fix manual page issues that make it
>>    next to impossible to cleanly convert these pages to other formats
>>
>> In terms of new "features", there's
>>
>>  - pu/scanimage-png-jpeg-v4
>>  - pu/add-hu.po-313073
>>
>> that need to be acted on swiftly to make the feature freeze.
>>
>> The remainder are fixes or enhancements.  Of those, I'd like to see as
>> many of the must-have, no-brainers and "IMNSHO-hsould-have" branches
>> below go in Real Soon Now.
>>
>> Any branches that get merged will be removed from my GitLab clone as
>> soon I as notice the merge and finish checking it.
>>
>> @devs (allan, stef, rolf mostly?): Please take a look and merge those
>> branches you feel comfortable merging.  I may be able to merge branches
>> myself but (as mentioned) don't feel comfortable doing so yet.  Maybe
>> *after* the 1.0.25 release.
>>
>> Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> I've been mail bombing the list, going through unassigned open tickets
>>> and pushing pu/* branches to my clone of sane-backends at GitLab[1].
>>>
>>>  [1] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/branches
>>>
>>> There are ten pu/* branches there as of writing and I have another five
>>> or so in the pipeline.  And I still have about 50 unassigned tickets to
>>> look at so there's probably more to come ;-)
>>>
>>> I would appreciate it if some of you could take a look at these branches
>>> and merge them to Alioth's master.
>>>
>>> There is one must-have: pu/fix-make-dist-targets.  Without it you won't
>>> be able to roll a tarball.  It also fixes `make distcheck` so you can do
>>> builds outside of the top-level source directory.
>>>
>>> There are two no-brainers: pu/fix-*.  The numbers refer to the associated
>>> bug reports.  I'll close those after I see the respective merges of these
>>> branches.
>>>
>>> In the "IMNSHO-should-have" category:
>>>  - pu/epson-epson2-usb-split because the epson backend doesn't claim to
>>>    support *all* the scanners epson2 does --> @alessandro
>>>  - pu/magicolor-4690MF-support because it adds support for a new scanner
>>>    --> @reinhold
>>>  - pu/protect-niash-option-access-315132 because it fixes a slightly far
>>>    fetched security issue --> @stef
>>
>> This last one has been merged (and removed from my clone).
>>
>>> For MIPS/musl portability, there's:
>>>  - pu/dont-detach-after-join
>>>  - pu/fix-musl-inb-outb-detection-on-mips
>>> and there may be another fix coming for u_char/u_long issues.
>>>
>>> Finally, there's:
>>>  - pu/bit-depth-reporting-fix which fixes a corner case in scanimage's
>>>    output
>>>  - pu/install-umax-pp-tools which addresses something Johannes pointed
>>>    out on the list.
>>>
>>> I've tried to attribute all the patches to their respective authors and
>>> timestamp them to match the first appearance that I am aware of.  While
>>> waiting for some/most/all of these to get merged, I'm off peering over
>>> unassigned tickets again.

Hope this helps,
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