[sane-devel] [janitorial] Code Freeze for 1.0.29 heads up

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi all,

Olaf Meeuwissen writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Just so you all don't forget ;-)
>
> On 2020-01-26 around 12:00UTC, we'll be entering Code Freeze.  This only
> affects the release/1.0.29 branch.  The master branch is still open for
> code changes, new features, bug fixes and what not.

We're past that point in time now and the release/1.0.29 branch is in
Code Freeze.  As per milestone[1] description, only "fixes for hardware
destroying bugs, compile failures, fixing completely unusable backends
and documentation fixes are allowed" now.

 [1]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/milestones/3

> Since the Feature Freeze last week, we've seen a couple of translation
> updates make their way in.  British English, Catalan, German, Ukrainian
> and Valencian are all at 100% now!
>
> There is still one open issue with a merge request that fixes it.  It's
> nothing spectacular but fixes a compiler warning in the genesys test
> suite.

That issue (and merge request) have been dealt with since.
@povilas> Thanks!

Nothing new has popped up, so far, that needs taking care of for 1.0.29
as far as I'm concerned but should you bump into something while testing
don't hesitate to submit an issue[2] or bring it up here on the list.

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

> Please note that translation updates [are] welcome on release/1.0.29 all
> the way up to 2020-02-02 around 10:00UTC and master after that.  Feel
> like helping out, check the list with translation issues at
>
>   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues?label_name%5B%5D=translation

The above re translation updates still stands.  Submissions are welcome
as merge requests (preferred) as well as patches.

> Only French has someone stepping up so far.

@skelband> Looking forward to an updated po/fr.po :-)

# Totally unrelated to the Code Freeze, I also cleaned up the artifacts
# of our old (pre 2019-09-01) CI pipelines.  This removed some 230 of
# the source tarballs that were still lingering around, roughly halving
# their number.  At present, snapshot tarballs older than 90 days are
# nuked.  Build logs are kept and releases are uploaded elsewhere[3] as
# a copy to preserve them for eternity/posterity.  Just FYI.
#
#  [3]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases

Hope this helps,
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