Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hi Johannes, Johannes Meixner writes (among other things): > On Oct 28 20:18 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): >> Johannes Meixner writes: > ... >>> RFC for an additional goal for sane-backends-1.0.26: >>> >>> - switch to group "lp" instead of "scanner" > ... >> I think it best to leave this to

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 01:57:12PM +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: > I will report my experience when I have droped support > for parallel port scanners in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Folks have been boasting old hardware (and _specifically_ scanner) support as a distinct advantage over Windows, FWIW.

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

and keep support for them for those who still use them (still got 2 of them). See what I had written here: -- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:43:17 +0200 (CEST) ... Subject: Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what? . . . My current plan how

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

On 28/10/2015 12:18, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Sorry for the belated response. Johannes Meixner writes: Hello Olaf, first and foremost many thanks for all your "SANE Project Janitor" work. On Oct 19 22:20 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): ... unofficial ... goals for sane-backends-1.0.26.

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hello On Oct 28 20:18 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): Johannes Meixner writes: ... Suggestion for an additional goal for sane-backends-1.0.26: - drop support for parallel port scanners Low priority for 1.0.26 at best. Also for me this is low priority because I have zero issue reports

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Sorry for the belated response. Johannes Meixner writes: > Hello Olaf, > > first and foremost many thanks for all your > "SANE Project Janitor" work. > > On Oct 19 22:20 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): >>> ... unofficial ... goals for sane-backends-1.0.26. >> Feedback and suggestions are

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hi Johannes, Johannes Meixner writes: > Hello, > > On Oct 21 21:32 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): >> Alessandro Zummo writes: >>> There's probably still some bug in the usb code. I have >>> intermittent results with some scanners on usb2 >>> and with others on usb3. switching among the two

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:01:25 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm not thinking about just adding a frame type. There are a number of > things that can be improved (progress indication, batch scanning among > others). If we are to make changes, we may as well address

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Sorry for the late follow-up. Alessandro Zummo writes: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:32:37 +0900 > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > [...] >> API change. Given the schedule for 1.0.26, I don't think that is doable >> within that time frame. If we are going to change the API,

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hi Devs, Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > [...] > > One of the things that I think contributed to the long period between > releases is the lack of a milestone, plan and/or schedule. Alioth does > not seem to have any kind of functionality that can help with that so I > have set up a milestone[1] at

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hello, On Oct 21 21:32 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): Alessandro Zummo writes: There's probably still some bug in the usb code. I have intermittent results with some scanners on usb2 and with others on usb3. switching among the two usb standards solves them all. I'm curious about USB

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:20:25 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Adding support for new devices, improving functionality for devices that > are already supported and fixing bugs will be part of 1.0.26 as well but > I think that that goes without saying. Said it anyway and

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hello Olaf, first and foremost many thanks for all your "SANE Project Janitor" work. On Oct 19 22:20 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): ... unofficial ... goals for sane-backends-1.0.26. - modernize the autofoo bits - fix all compiler warnings - bump language level to C99 - default to

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Alessandro Zummo writes: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:20:25 +0900 > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >> Adding support for new devices, improving functionality for devices that >> are already supported and fixing bugs will be part of 1.0.26 as well but >> I think that that goes

Re: [sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:32:37 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > don't have direct access to a device. Maybe we could think about how to > approach manufacturers to get access to specs and/or devices (and under > what conditions because we still want to be able to

[sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

Hi Devs, It took two years before 1.0.25 saw the light of day but it has been out for two weeks now. Are we going to wait another two years for 1.0.26? I sincerely hope not. One of the things that I think contributed to the long period between releases is the lack of a milestone, plan and/or