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

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Further to my previous comment about the releases page fluff, that seems 
to have gone now.
Please disregard my comment! :D

Cheers,
Ralph

On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote:
> Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix '' 
> .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems like our release 
> process might be leaving out some steps. I guess I'll dig more tomorrow.
>
> allan
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:44 PM m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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"
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     "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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