[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-09 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:02:01 -0500 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: I do not recall seeing any 1.1 API stuff being re-enabled although there was talk of it. ?Is there any work to be done in that area? Lets drop that idea for now. It is a roadblock to release. Wasn't that stuff

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-09 Thread m. allan noah
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:02:01 -0500 m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: I do not recall seeing any 1.1 API stuff being re-enabled although there was talk of it. ?Is there any work to be done in that

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread db
why hasn't there been a release in a long time ? I note that distributions including debian are shipping a version of sane-backends that is really dated. They are missing out on enabling working devices because of this (changes are long since committed to git ). I know this is not the fault

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
db db.pub.mail at gmail.com wrote: Hi, I know this is not the fault of sane, however this is causing a large distance between what sane can do and what sane 'does' as shipped. If there's no release, there's nothing new to package. As simple as that. So, yes, it is SANE's fault. I'm not

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
I personally will take the great measure of responsibility for this problem. My time has become very limited since I took over the job of making releases. I have also allowed the confusion around a new API prevent us from moving forward with maintenance releases, even though that is an unrelated

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Bagwell
I was going to wait a little closer to 1 year anniversary of last release before bringing it up but thats starting to creep up on us. I was also hoping we can get one out in time for Fedora 13 but their freeze is coming up pretty quick. I'll offer to help out as much as possible with the

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Chris Bagwell chris at cnpbagwell.com wrote: I was going to wait a little closer to 1 year anniversary of last release before bringing it up but thats starting to creep up on us. ?I was also hoping we can get one out in time for Fedora 13 but their freeze is

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, I personally will take the great measure of responsibility for this problem. My time has become very limited since I took over the job of making releases. I have also allowed the confusion around a new API prevent us from moving forward with

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, I personally will take the great measure of responsibility for this problem. My time has become very limited since I took over the job of making releases. I have also

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the vote of confidence, but your comments prove that my second point is correct. We have allowed ourselves to stall releases of updated code, because we keep talking about our hopes for the We knew that could be a problem, but it only

[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

2010-02-08 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for the vote of confidence, but your comments prove that my second point is correct. We have allowed ourselves to stall releases of updated code, because we keep