Hi All(an), m. allan noah writes:
> What is the nature of the bug fix? Is it going to cause scanners that > worked with the prior release to be broken with this one? How big is > the fix? How likely to cause regressions? Here's where git branches come in nice. Rolf creates a branch, commits his bug fix and pushes the branch. Next, he informs the project admins of the bug fix branch and that he would like to see it included in the upcoming releases. The project admins have a look at the code changes and can decide for themselves and/or ask for more information as needs be. Right now, everything goes straight to master and I am not sure that is the best way to proceed when using git (Subversion and CVS are different beasts). I also realize that forcing everything through some sort of review process is unrealistic for sane-backends where most developers are rather focussed on their own backend(s) only. Maybe we should try to write up some kind of policy for pushing to master. Something like - pushing changes to master for a backend you maintain is okay (unless in code freeze) - pushing changes for code that affects multiple backends, something in sanei/ for example or the build system, should go to a branch and get reviewed before merging to master - anything you like to have an extra pair of eyes on goes to a branch and you ask/assign someone for review (uh-oh, Alioth doesn't support merge requests ... :-(, mail and/or mailing list for now?) - ... and some more for non-SANE developers that I'll skip for now Anyway, let's focus on the release first. I'll be around, intermittently, for most of the weekend (JST, UTC+0900) if anything needs reviewing or if you have questions about any autotools stuff. If you need a Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 setup for sane-backends docker pull registry.gitlab.com/sane-projects/ci-envs:debian-8-full is your friend. It'll only take a minute or so to download. # But it won't do the SANE API documentation and manual pages yet :-( Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org