Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]> writes: > Julien BLACHE <[email protected]> writes: > >> Johannes Meixner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>>> What I have done >>>> now is suggesting to the upstream developers to make two packages, one >>>> with the frontend and one with the backend, to be more distro-friendly. >>>> I have no answer yet, lets see what they say. >>> >>> Be prepared to be very patient - I asked this since 14 Jul 2004, >>> see the shortened mail at the bottom :-( >> >> And the answer will probably be "it would confuse our users even >> more", but then, so does using japanese model names all over the >> place. I'm a bit fed up with trying to remember which japanese model >> name matches which non-japanese model name :/ > > Same here, that's why I've started pointers in our epkowa.desc. > >> (It's painful enough with all those rebranded scanners, so if >> manufacturers like Epson could stick to having only one model name...) > > Model names for EPSON devices vary by geographic region :-( > >>> I like to emphasize that it is not Olaf Meeuwissen who is to blame >>> that there is almost no progress here. >> >> Indeed, Olaf does as much as humanly possible to improve the >> situation, but even sending patches to him doesn't help as he doesn't >> have the time to merge them due to tight deadlines and schedule (he's >> sending patches to himself to queue them until management allocates a >> time frame to merge them in, IIRC). > > Thanks for not blaming me ;-) and your summary is mostly correct. > I've not been sending myself many patches lately. Hacking on iscan > for work as well as in my own time is not always that much fun and at > the pace patches made it in ... > >> And management is, well, management, aggravated by the fact that this >> is a japanese company, the development is split between two entities >> and includes IP from some other entities, with horrible communication >> between the parties involved. >> >> Basically, this is the situation as I get it, correct me if I'm wrong :) > > I would quite call the communication horrible, but it probably leaves > to be desired and things get "lost in translation". > # My Japanese in not even halfway decent ... I just hobble along.
Eh, that's "I would not quite call ..." >>> Perhaps it helps the Epson Avasys decision makers to make the right >>> decisions when all (or at least almost all) Linux distributors >>> demand the same thing. >> >> It'd be nice if something could be organised between Epson's >> management, SANE developers (Henning ? khk ? Oliver Schwartz ?) and >> some key distributions to discuss the situation and see what can be >> done to improve it as much as possible. (obviously I'd have no problem >> attending such a meeting, as long as I am available on that day and >> can make it to the meeting). > > If something like that would materialise, I suggest we also drag in > the CUPS and ghostscript packagers to get the EPSON AVASYS printer > drivers on the right track as well. > # Johannes Meixner has already contacted us, Till Kamppeter just did. > > Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
