[sane-devel] No response to merge requests for the genesys backend

[Povilas Kanapickas]

Hi Gerhard,

On 11/10/2018 08:44, Gerhard Jäger wrote:
> Hi Povilas,
> 
> On 10.10.18 at 23:31 Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> A couple of months ago I submitted several merge requests with small
>> changes to the genesys backend:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/10
>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/9
>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/7
>>
>> There has been no response so far. Is there anything I could do to make
>> the PRs go through?
> 
> Well - no. Put the blame on me. I've simply ignored the requests that
> Olaf has assigned to me. I'm going to check and merge ASAP. Sorry.

Thank you!

>> If there's lack of manpower, is there any way I could be more involved
>> in the project? I think sane serves an important mission by letting
>> people use very old scanner hardware indefinitely, even after the
>> proprietary drivers are no longer available for the operating systems
>> used at the time. Over time this will significantly reduce the amount of
>> perfectly good hardware thrown away at least in this sector.
>>
>> I have substantial experience developing low level systems software, so
>> I'm confident I could potentially be useful to the project.
> 
> I have the feeling that every new developer who likes to contribute
> is welcome. Regarding pending and necessary work, Olaf has the overview.
> 
> If you'd like to take over maintenance of a certain backend - no
> problem - I'd say.

Maintaining a backend could be a long term goal. I'm mostly interested
in the genesys backend right now because I have access to more hardware.
Of course it all depends on the the plans of the current maintainer :-)

If there's lack of interest and time, I could take over maintenance
sooner rather than later. The only issue in this case would be access of
hardware - I would not feel confident without a way to test most
configurations end to end and getting all the scanners would take some time.

Regards,
Povilas