[sane-devel] dell1600n_net backend

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Mon May 15 18:11:31 UTC 2006


Hi,

On 2006-05-10 07:44, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > backend myself as a diff to the most recent major release until it is
> > stable or can it be got into the main repository before that?
> 
> Henning will correct me if I'm wrong, but the backend can probably go
> in if it has at least basic support for the scanner and won't cause
> data loss if something goes wrong.

Yes, my rule of thumb is something like "if it does something useful,
complies with the rules in backend-writing.txt (and the SANE
standard), doesn't break compilation and doesn't cause hardware damage
it can go in. For more fine-grained control we have the status levels
for each scanner.

Bye,
  Henning



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