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

2023-02-19 Thread m. allan noah
I've been struggling with it. Go ahead and commit your changes, anything I do for 1.2.2 will be on the 1.2.x branch. allan On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 6:34 PM Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > > On 2023-02-07 17:43, m. allan noah wrote: > > Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated

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

2023-02-19 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On 2023-02-07 17:43, m. allan noah wrote: Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am going to make an executive decision, and rip some of this

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

2023-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
An accident. We also skipped 1.1.0, so I just did the same thing. allan On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 9:24 AM Ulf Zibis wrote: > Hi, > > why you start with version 1.2.1 instead 1.2.0 ? > > -Ulf > Am 08.02.23 um 02:43 schrieb m. allan noah: > > Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty

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

2023-02-08 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi, why you start with version 1.2.1 instead 1.2.0 ? -Ulf Am 08.02.23 um 02:43 schrieb m. allan noah: Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am

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

2023-02-07 Thread m. allan noah
Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am going to make an executive decision, and rip some of this out. Once I have done this (and cleaned up the

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

2023-02-07 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On a slightly different note, perhaps we should consider doing a frontends release soon. Thierry has been working on a GTK3 port of the GUI apps in there which is going to become an issue shortly as some distros drop GTK2. Cheers, Ralph On 2023-02-07 04:48, m. allan noah wrote: This

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

2023-02-07 Thread Ludwig Jaffe
"This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more time fighting with the automation than I would have spent doing an old manual release." Lemma: Things take longer and become buggy if you try to automate them. :-) Thank you for your contributions! Cheers luja On February 7, 2023

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

2023-02-07 Thread m. allan noah
This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more time fighting with the automation than I would have spent doing an old manual release. One of the steps there was simply to edit configure.ac and change the version number a couple of times. Seems easy enough to 'echo $new_version >

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

2023-02-06 Thread Thierry Huchard
Message sent some time ago: Hi Ralph You can't use git in the launchpad build environment So the reslease version is placed in the gitdescrib file To solve the build problem I propose you a fix via a patch modification : debian/patches/0720-sane-git-snapshot-enable-aclocal.patch and a

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

2023-02-06 Thread 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.

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

2023-02-06 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, 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. IIRC, this has been a long-standing

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

2023-02-06 Thread m. allan noah
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 wrote: > So, I was able to do the

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

2023-02-06 Thread 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

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

2023-02-04 Thread Ralph Little
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

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

2023-02-04 Thread m. allan noah
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 wrote: > Hi, > In this case I didn't generate the

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

2023-02-04 Thread Ralph Little
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

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

2023-02-04 Thread m. allan noah
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 wrote: > Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take a first stab at it on the 4th, and see > if I can follow

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

2023-02-01 Thread m. allan noah
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 wrote: > Hi, > I have prepared the release notes whenever you are ready! > > Cheers, > Ralph > > On 2023-01-24 08:33, m. allan

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

2023-01-28 Thread Ralph Little
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 wrote:

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

2023-01-24 Thread m. allan noah
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 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

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

2023-01-24 Thread Ralph Little
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

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

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Little
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