[sane-devel] why hasn't there been a release in a long time ?

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Thanks for the vote of confidence, but your comments prove that my
>> second point is correct. We have allowed ourselves to stall releases
>> of updated code, because we keep talking about our hopes for the
>
> We knew that could be a problem, but it only became an issue because
> other things failed.
>
>> Also, while I do agree with you on the 'performance' of some
>> maintainers, this IS a volunteer effort, and people change. We need to
>
> Sure, but then there's the manner. Doing a last drop of buggy code and
> then leaving isn't exactly the best way to part ways with a project
> you've contributed to.
>
>> move on, and find new maintainers if possible.
>
> Yup. We should now deprecate any backend that doesn't have a maintainer
> today. Only way to get the message accross at that point.
>
> Move the backends to another directory, add an option to make it
> possible to build those backends, but disable them by default.

I wont agree to do that for any sane 1.0 release. However, I think we
can do that for sane 2.0, but I dont want to cloud the current
discussion.

allan
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