[sane-devel] Is it time of a new release?

[m. allan noah]

Go ahead and commit it.

allan

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:42 PM, René Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> with a customer we made a small patch to fix scanning with some newer Epson DS scanners,
> this is effectively this bug report:
>
>         https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=315552&group_id=30186&atid=410366
>
> Should I just go ahead and commit this buffer handling patch to git, or should I get familiar with the web management thingy and upload it there?
>
>         René
>
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 2:11, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We were discussing another release recently. We have at least one
>> major networking security bug we need to fix, and there are a few
>> backends which have some outstanding patches yet to commit. I think
>> perhaps at the end of April these things will be ready. If you are
>> able, taking a pass through our bug tracker looking for things we
>> might have missed would be helpful.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
>> <luizluca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We already have more than 500 commits since 1.0.25. As a downstream
>>> maintainer (openwrt/lede), I get lost between those tons of patches
>>> and how to select them to be backported.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't sane-backend release a new version?
>>>
>>> Also, It would be really nice if SANE could keep a stable branch. It would
>>> be, at least, a place to target cherry-picks.
>>>
>>> Maybe it could change its version number to something like other projects do
>>> as:
>>>
>>> x.y.0 - feature release x.y
>>> x.y.n - fix release n
>>>
>>> It would be better if x.y is year/month. At least there is no discussion on
>>> whether the new release is big enough to tic the first number.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --
>>>
>>> Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
>>> luizluca at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
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>>
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