On 12/10/2018 09:32, Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > Hi Gerhard, > > On 11/10/2018 08:44, Gerhard Jäger wrote: >> Hi Povilas, >> >> On 10.10.18 at 23:31 Povilas Kanapickas wrote: >>> Hey there, >>> >>> A couple of months ago I submitted several merge requests with small >>> changes to the genesys backend: >>> >>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/10 >>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/9 >>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/7 >>> >>> There has been no response so far. Is there anything I could do to make >>> the PRs go through? >> >> Well - no. Put the blame on me. I've simply ignored the requests that >> Olaf has assigned to me. I'm going to check and merge ASAP. Sorry. > > Thank you! > >>> If there's lack of manpower, is there any way I could be more involved >>> in the project? I think sane serves an important mission by letting >>> people use very old scanner hardware indefinitely, even after the >>> proprietary drivers are no longer available for the operating systems >>> used at the time. Over time this will significantly reduce the amount of >>> perfectly good hardware thrown away at least in this sector. >>> >>> I have substantial experience developing low level systems software, so >>> I'm confident I could potentially be useful to the project. >> >> I have the feeling that every new developer who likes to contribute >> is welcome. Regarding pending and necessary work, Olaf has the overview. >> >> If you'd like to take over maintenance of a certain backend - no >> problem - I'd say. > > Maintaining a backend could be a long term goal. I'm mostly interested > in the genesys backend right now because I have access to more hardware. > Of course it all depends on the the plans of the current maintainer :-) > > If there's lack of interest and time, I could take over maintenance > sooner rather than later. The only issue in this case would be access of > hardware - I would not feel confident without a way to test most > configurations end to end and getting all the scanners would take some time. >
Just a friendly ping :-) Does what I wrote make sense? Regards, Povilas -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
