[sane-devel] Code freeze and release preparations for 1.0.28 (was Re: [ITR] Intent To Release: sane-backends-1.0.28)

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi again all,

Still following the release schedule on our [1.0.28 milestone][1], our
master branch is now (2019-07-24 12:00UTC) in code freeze.  Please do
*not* push/merge to master unless it fixes

 - hardware destroying bugs (no reports at present),
 - compile failures (our CI is clean so we're looking good),
 - completely unusable backends, or
 - documentation

In case of doubt, ping the list or [submit an issue][2].

 [1]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/milestones/2
 [2]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues

@povilas> Thanks for fixing that genesys backend calibration file bug.
          See https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/97

I've been tinkering with our project's [Releases page][3] on GitLab.com.
When we moved, that page didn't exist yet and I put our "releases" so
far on the repository's [Tags][4] page for lack of a better alternative.
GitLab.com seeded the former from the latter but that created quite a
mess in terms of version ordering for the Releases.  That has now been
sorted out.  I still want to convert the notes to Markdown, though.
When we release 1.0.28, the Releases page will be updated automatically,
courtesy of our CI!

 [3]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases
 [4]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/tags

We now have a week to update translations as well.  I just pushed a sync
of all the po/*.po files against the latest source.  I thought of Cc:ing
the Last-Translator entries in those files, but most of those addresses
are so old I figured I'd better not.  For the recent ones, coverage is
pretty good already.  Here are some stats, sorted by percentage of the
strings that are translated.

  Translated   Fuzzy  Untranslated
  100.00%      0.00%      0.00%: uk.po
   99.33%      0.42%      0.25%: he.po
   99.33%      0.42%      0.25%: ca at valencia.po
   99.33%      0.42%      0.25%: ca.po
   98.24%      0.75%      1.00%: nl.po
   84.95%      6.27%      8.78%: sv.po
   75.33%      8.70%     15.97%: de.po
   74.75%      8.86%     16.39%: fr.po
   74.67%      8.95%     16.39%: pl.po
   72.07%     10.12%     17.81%: gl.po
   72.07%     10.12%     17.81%: es.po
   68.65%     11.79%     19.57%: en_GB.po
   66.47%     12.79%     20.74%: eo.po
   65.55%     13.55%     20.90%: it.po
   56.77%     16.64%     26.59%: da.po
   56.35%      9.78%     33.86%: ja.po
   52.34%     17.89%     29.77%: fi.po
   52.17%     18.14%     29.68%: bg.po
   49.41%     16.64%     33.95%: ru.po
   49.25%     19.15%     31.61%: cs.po
   21.82%     13.96%     64.21%: pt.po
   16.89%     16.14%     66.97%: nb.po
   15.64%     11.12%     73.24%: hu.po

I will fix up nl.po myself but the rest is for interested parties (I may
take a look at ja.po and en_GB.po, though).  If you intend to work on
any of these files, please let the list know so we can coordinate
things.

Hope this helps,
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