Can I agree that the Canon LiDE series have been f**king cool? I should get another for mobile work...
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:33 PM Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:12 PM Olaf Meeuwissen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Sedat, > > > > Sedat Dilek writes: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:45 PM Olaf Meeuwissen > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I've been dragging my feet of late. Not just as far as the SANE Project > > >> is concerned but in general. For one reason or another I just can't get > > >> myself to do much after I get home from work ... :-/ > > >> > > >> Let's see if I can change that a bit by upping the pressure (on myself) > > >> and announce intent to release sane-backend-1.0.31 sometime next month. > > >> That would keep us on track for a roughly half-yearly release cycle, not > > >> counting security bug fix releases like 1.0.30. > > >> > > >> In keeping with what's in our `doc/release.txt` (minus a day or two), I > > >> would like to proceed along the following timeline > > >> > > >> 2020-07-21 Kick-off > > >> 2020-08-02 Feature Freeze (-> cut release/1.0.31 branch) > > >> 2020-08-16 Code Freeze > > >> 2020-08-23 Release > > >> > > >> You can find a milestone for 1.0.31 at > > >> > > >> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/milestones/4 > > >> > > >> I'll be adding issues fixed and merge requests to be included or already > > >> included in the coming weeks and hope to finish that before the feature > > >> freeze. Help with that chore is welcome by the way. > > >> > > >> # FTR, I'll be mostly off-line during the August 12-16 period. > > >> > > >> Hope this helps, > > > > > > I am not 100% following this mailing-list, so I can miss fundamental > > > informations. > > > > > > As I had a Canon LIDE 70 I wanted to ask what is the status of support > > > for it? > > > > Support will be added in 1.0.31. It's already mentioned in the NEWS > > file > > > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/NEWS > > > > > While searching for informations myself: > > > 1. Its man-page [2] points to nirvana. > > > > That's because the backend has not been included in a release yet and is > > something that we might want to fix. Please submit an issue. > > > > > 2. The ChangeLogs file [3] ends with release 1.0.28. > > > > Actually, that points to a ChangeLogs *directory*. We decided to stop > > updating the ChangeLog in the repository itself because `git log` will > > tell you anyway. Of course that assumes you have cloned the repository > > but if you haven't, you can check > > > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/commits/master > > > > Our source tarballs, both release and snapshots, include a generated > > ChangeLog file though. > > > > There's also an issue about this > > > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/313 > > > > > Thanks for a feedback in advance. > > > > > > - Sedat - > > > > > > [1] > > > http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-CANON-LIDE70 > > > [2] http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-canon_lide70.5.html > > > [3] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/tree/master/ChangeLogs > > > [4] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/247 > > > > As for that last merge request, you want to look at 315 instead (as > > mentioned at the bottom of the feedback on 247). > > > > Hope this helps, > > Hi Olaf, > > Thanks for commenting. > Hope you can clarify in the next announcement and/or within SCM (I > read ChangeLogs :-)). > > As said - currently - I have no scanner or a multi-function device w/ > printer+scanner. > So SANE has not a high priority for me. > > I should have kept the Canon LIDE 70 scanner - it was fu**ing cool device. > > Regards, > - Sedat - > -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://redwolf.ws
