[sane-devel] Release 1.0.33?

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:32 AM Povilas Kanapickas <povilas at radix.lt> wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
>
> On 8/18/21 5:56 PM, Ralph Little wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2021-08-18 3:25 a.m., Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> >...
> > Since the majority of users get their releases from their distros, who
> > for the most part seem pretty conservative about their SANE releases, do
> > you think we would get sufficient buy-in from distros for the release
> > candidates to get much exposure?
> > I can certainly cut an RC release on the sane-release PPA so that people
> > using that can get a taster.
>
> A release candidate is easy to make. The primary reason for it is to
> communicate that we think this release is good, so that more people have
> reasons to report bugs. If there aren't bugs reported, then we wouldn't
> get them if we had a feature freeze on the master branch.
>
> I don't have a problem with this approach and it is common enough
elsewhere.
My only concern was if anyone would actually check an RC release out.
Do you know if there are any distros out there that would be on-the-ball
enough to build an official rc package that users would use?


> > Also we would need a phase before the first release candidate is
> > generated to get translations in. That could be between Sept 24 and the
> > first release candidate I guess, but before we had a specific period of
> > time for translation where we wouldn't be expecting to see code changes.
>
> Could maybe the first release candidate be the point where translations
> could start flowing in?
>
> What do you think about this approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Povilas
>
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