On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Stef <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/2015 20:08, m. allan noah wrote: >> >> It's been a long time since we have done a sane-backends release, and >> much code has changed. I propose to do a release sometime in mid >> September. >> >> Unfortunately, there have been a number of patches posted to this >> mailing list or the bug tracker, which have not been applied. In >> particular, I know that Gentoo has some systemd compilation fixes. We >> also have a large number of open bug reports- sometimes waiting years >> for reporter responses. >> >> 1. Is there someone willing to volunteer to find some of the patches >> we missed, and investigate their suitability? >> 2. Are backend authors able to investigate and close some tickets? >> >> If we can clean some of these things up, I will pick a date, and do the >> release. >> >> allan > > Hello, > > I'm already currently working on closing as much tickets I can on the > backends I maintain. > > I think we shouldn't do a release without the new pie backend (see > https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410366&aid=315085&group_id=30186). > I planned to have a look at it once I have done fixing bugs in genesys > backend.
Agreed- I also have not had a chance to look at it. > And I'd rather not close any ticket because it is too old. I have seen > that process to many times at work: > 1 - don't answer the bug reports because your are busy adding more > features > 2 - wait for too long > 3 - close them because they are too old when management get scared of > the tickets stock pile > > Bug reports are accumulating because we need more developers. > I was speaking specifically about bug reports where we have asked the original reporter for more information, and they have not gotten back to us. If the report is open because a sane developer needs to do something, then it should probably stay open. allan -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
