[sane-devel] No response to merge requests for the genesys backend

[Povilas Kanapickas]

On 12/10/2018 09:32, Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,
> 
> On 11/10/2018 08:44, Gerhard Jäger wrote:
>> Hi Povilas,
>>
>> On 10.10.18 at 23:31 Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> A couple of months ago I submitted several merge requests with small
>>> changes to the genesys backend:
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/10
>>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/9
>>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/7
>>>
>>> There has been no response so far. Is there anything I could do to make
>>> the PRs go through?
>>
>> Well - no. Put the blame on me. I've simply ignored the requests that
>> Olaf has assigned to me. I'm going to check and merge ASAP. Sorry.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>>> If there's lack of manpower, is there any way I could be more involved
>>> in the project? I think sane serves an important mission by letting
>>> people use very old scanner hardware indefinitely, even after the
>>> proprietary drivers are no longer available for the operating systems
>>> used at the time. Over time this will significantly reduce the amount of
>>> perfectly good hardware thrown away at least in this sector.
>>>
>>> I have substantial experience developing low level systems software, so
>>> I'm confident I could potentially be useful to the project.
>>
>> I have the feeling that every new developer who likes to contribute
>> is welcome. Regarding pending and necessary work, Olaf has the overview.
>>
>> If you'd like to take over maintenance of a certain backend - no
>> problem - I'd say.
> 
> Maintaining a backend could be a long term goal. I'm mostly interested
> in the genesys backend right now because I have access to more hardware.
> Of course it all depends on the the plans of the current maintainer :-)
> 
> If there's lack of interest and time, I could take over maintenance
> sooner rather than later. The only issue in this case would be access of
> hardware - I would not feel confident without a way to test most
> configurations end to end and getting all the scanners would take some time.
> 

Just a friendly ping :-) Does what I wrote make sense?

Regards,
Povilas