Hi Ralph, On 11/19/19 12:33 AM, Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > I know that some people have mentioned that the Supported Scanners page > is a bit out-of-date but I have a suggestion for it. > > As we have seen in the genesys backend, bit rot has played its part in > breaking support for some models. This is inevitable whenever we do work > on a backend and can't test all supported hardware: no blame here, it is > just an unavoidable fact of life. > > I'm doing a bit of work in trying to acquire some scanner models so that > we can do some regression testing and fix what issues are found. As > example, the Supported Scanners page shows the ScanJet 3670 as fully > working, but that's not true as of right now. > > Perhaps it would make sense to add another column to indicate when a > scanner was last officially tested (and on which backend version) and > had a positive outcome, or otherwise. Currently, we only report the > minimum supported backend version, with nothing additional added after that.> > What do people think?
I think the most important thing for downstream users would be what versions of SANE were working with the scanner. I think it makes sense to have a column where we could put a list of released SANE versions with which the scanner was successfully tested. Putting a date is perhaps not very useful because development code from the master branch can break at any time before the release and it does not matter much if I test 1.0.28 now or a year from now. Regards, Povilas
