[sane-devel] [janitorial] Let's release 1.0.31 in August

[Kelly Price]

Can I agree that the Canon LiDE series have been f**king cool?  I
should get another for mobile work...

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:33 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:12 PM Olaf Meeuwissen
> <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Sedat,
> >
> > Sedat Dilek writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:45 PM Olaf Meeuwissen
> > > <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I've been dragging my feet of late.  Not just as far as the SANE Project
> > >> is concerned but in general.  For one reason or another I just can't get
> > >> myself to do much after I get home from work ... :-/
> > >>
> > >> Let's see if I can change that a bit by upping the pressure (on myself)
> > >> and announce intent to release sane-backend-1.0.31 sometime next month.
> > >> That would keep us on track for a roughly half-yearly release cycle, not
> > >> counting security bug fix releases like 1.0.30.
> > >>
> > >> In keeping with what's in our `doc/release.txt` (minus a day or two), I
> > >> would like to proceed along the following timeline
> > >>
> > >>   2020-07-21 Kick-off
> > >>   2020-08-02 Feature Freeze (-> cut release/1.0.31 branch)
> > >>   2020-08-16 Code Freeze
> > >>   2020-08-23 Release
> > >>
> > >> You can find a milestone for 1.0.31 at
> > >>
> > >>  https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/milestones/4
> > >>
> > >> I'll be adding issues fixed and merge requests to be included or already
> > >> included in the coming weeks and hope to finish that before the feature
> > >> freeze.  Help with that chore is welcome by the way.
> > >>
> > >> # FTR, I'll be mostly off-line during the August 12-16 period.
> > >>
> > >> Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > I am not 100% following this mailing-list, so I can miss fundamental
> > > informations.
> > >
> > > As I had a Canon LIDE 70 I wanted to ask what is the status of support for it?
> >
> > Support will be added in 1.0.31.  It's already mentioned in the NEWS
> > file
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/NEWS
> >
> > > While searching for informations myself:
> > > 1. Its man-page [2] points to nirvana.
> >
> > That's because the backend has not been included in a release yet and is
> > something that we might want to fix.  Please submit an issue.
> >
> > > 2. The ChangeLogs file [3] ends with release 1.0.28.
> >
> > Actually, that points to a ChangeLogs *directory*.  We decided to stop
> > updating the ChangeLog in the repository itself because `git log` will
> > tell you anyway.  Of course that assumes you have cloned the repository
> > but if you haven't, you can check
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/commits/master
> >
> > Our source tarballs, both release and snapshots, include a generated
> > ChangeLog file though.
> >
> > There's also an issue about this
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/313
> >
> > > Thanks for a feedback in advance.
> > >
> > > - Sedat -
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-CANON-LIDE70
> > > [2] http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-canon_lide70.5.html
> > > [3] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/tree/master/ChangeLogs
> > > [4] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/247
> >
> > As for that last merge request, you want to look at 315 instead (as
> > mentioned at the bottom of the feedback on 247).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Hi Olaf,
>
> Thanks for commenting.
> Hope you can clarify in the next announcement and/or within SCM (I
> read ChangeLogs :-)).
>
> As said - currently - I have no scanner or a multi-function device w/
> printer+scanner.
> So SANE has not a high priority for me.
>
> I should have kept the Canon LIDE 70 scanner - it was fu**ing cool device.
>
> Regards,
> - Sedat -
>


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