[sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

[m. allan noah]

So, I was able to do the release on time (after filling in a few blanks in
our documentation). But I only did the website updates tonight. I seem to
have run into a small problem there- when I download the release tarball,
and run ./autogen.sh, i get a ./configure file which has 'UNKNOWN' as the
package version number. This also happens with 1.1.1 as well. Is this
happening for anyone else?

allan

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> OK, I think I have done that.
>
> Because we are short on time I cut and pasted the release note fragments
> from my spreadsheet into the NEWS file with Apostrophe MD file editor and
> whipped them into shape manually.
> First time using it and it is pretty good. Obviously, this was a manual
> process, but it wasn't too onerous.
>
> I couldn't get the towncrier thingy to work anyway. I don't really have
> much experience with python and pip. Python seems an awful lot more
> complicated since the last time I used it :(
>
> I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your branch.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>
> On 2023-02-04 18:18, m. allan noah wrote:
>
> Awesome, thanks! I'm working on updating doc/releases.md, which I find to
> be hard to use. Maybe if you keep some notes on what you did, I can
> incorporate your method instead of towncrier.
>
> allan
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In this case I didn't generate the towncrier files. It's a lot of faff if
>> you don't do it as you go along.
>> I just put them into a spreadsheet.
>>
>> I will try to generate the release notes from that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>>
>> On 2023-02-04 17:57, m. allan noah wrote:
>>
>> I have pushed a branch called 'release-1.2.x'. I don't have this
>> 'towncrier' thing, so maybe you can run that and merge the release notes?
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take a first stab at it on the 4th, and
>>> see if I can follow our current instructions.
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 8:43 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have prepared the release notes whenever you are ready!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ralph
>>>>
>>>> On 2023-01-24 08:33, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sounds good to me, thanks for your help. I'm traveling this week, and
>>>> won't be able to work on this until the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 10:47 AM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2023-01-01 15:54, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>>> > It has been nearly a year since our last release, and there have
>>>>> been
>>>>> > many changes and bug fixes. I'd like to get 1.2.1 released in early
>>>>> > February. I've not done it in a few years, but I am certainly
>>>>> willing
>>>>> > to make the release package.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Any objections to a code freeze on Jan 22, and a release on Feb 5?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > allan
>>>>>
>>>>> I think if we are going for your proposed plan, then we are official
>>>>> in
>>>>> code freeze for 1.2.1.
>>>>> If you want to proceed, I can prepare release notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge
>>> of my hand"
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of
>> my hand"
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of
> my hand"
>
>
>

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