[sane-devel] Epson DS fix (was Re: Is it time of a new release?)

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi René,

m. allan noah writes:

> Go ahead and commit it.

Looks like you haven't gotten around to doing so.  Since we have a code
freeze coming up 2017-05-07, please do so soon.

> allan
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:42 PM, René Rebe  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> with a customer we made a small patch to fix scanning with some newer Epson 
>> DS scanners,
>> this is effectively this bug report:
>>
>> 
>> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail=315552_id=30186=410366
>>
>> Should I just go ahead and commit this buffer handling patch to git, or 
>> should I get familiar with the web management thingy and upload it there?
>>
>> René
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 2:11, m. allan noah  wrote:
>>
>>> We were discussing another release recently. We have at least one
>>> major networking security bug we need to fix, and there are a few
>>> backends which have some outstanding patches yet to commit. I think
>>> perhaps at the end of April these things will be ready. If you are
>>> able, taking a pass through our bug tracker looking for things we
>>> might have missed would be helpful.

Hope this helps,
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Re: [sane-devel] [PATCH] Include physical resolution (pHYs section) in PNG output.

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Aaron,

Aaron Muir Hamilton writes:

> Pleased to make your acquaintance, Olaf.

Same here.

> Thank you for reviewing the patches and taking them upstream,
> I have an equivalent patch for JPEG output on the boil.

Good.  You have until 2017-05-07 to get it in the next release.

> Not to put you on the spot, but it seems like a lot of time has passed
> since the last release was tagged, despite there apparently being quite
> a bit of development since then.
>
> I'm wondering who is empowered to tag a release;

As you may have noticed, Allan here posted a time schedule.

> I think it would be a good time to make one. 2015-10-04 was quite a
> while ago, and I know that at least Archlinux has a downstream patch
> (authored in 2013, but not included in 1.0.25) which seems to be
> integrated in master. [1]
>
> [1]: 
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/segfault-avahi-fix-kodakio.patch?h=packages/sane
>
> おつかれさま。

JPEGの解像度パッチをよろしく！

Now let's keep the conversation in the lingua franca of the software
developer world so that everyone can participate again ;-)

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Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Allan,

m. allan noah writes:

> Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the door.

I was about to ping you on that ;-)

> Olaf has done a good job of cleaning up our contributors list and
> curating the bug tracker.

I don't think I did a good job (yet?) with the bug tracker but, hey, if
you think I did, I'll take the kudos ;-)

# Me no like the Alioth bug tracker ... at all.  It feels so antiquated
# now I've been using GitLab and GitHub for a year or two ...

> However, there are a handful of patches in
> the bug tracker that could still be applied, once they are reviewed.

I'm working through the recent patches to the mailing list.  I also have
some concerns about Wilhelm's report (from 2017-04-05) that looping over

  sane_init()
  sane_get_devices()
  sane_exit()

crashes on Debian (not on Arch Linux or Gentoo).  It appears to be an
issue with threading.  I know the sanei_thread API has issues but
haven't gotten around to testing this.  I hope to take a look before
the release.

> Also, quite a number of backends that are now unmaintained. So, this
> is a good time to get involved with sane. If you benefit from this
> project, and have some programming experience, we could use the help.
>
> Schedule:
>
> May 7: Feature freeze (only fix bugs and update docs after this date)

I have the whole week off until May 7 (Golden Week here in Japan).  I
was thinking of doing some other hacking but I'll go over the mailing
list for unapplied but appliable patches as well as patches in the bug
tracker.  I won't be doing anything May 2/3, though.

> May 14: Code freeze (only update docs after this date)
> May 21: Release
>
> Any questions or concerns, let me know.

Do you need a hand writing or an eye reviewing the release notes?  If
yes, just say so.

Please mention that the USB support's configure option has changed, that
libusb-0.1 is deprecated and that libusb-1.0 is the default now (if both
are available).  This may hit unsuspecting binary package maintainers.

@Rolf> Could the changed configure option be why your PPAs no longer
   build?  See a9c81394 for details.  You want --with-usb (or just
   default if a libusb*-dev package is in the Build-Depends).  If
   it's something else, let us know what's preventing your builds
   from succeeding.

As there have been some changes in configure.ac and friends, I'll check
if the doc/backend-writing.txt file needs updating.

Hope this helps,
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