[sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

[m. allan noah]

Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix ''
.tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems like our release process
might be leaving out some steps. I guess I'll dig more tomorrow.

allan

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:44 PM m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I was able to do the release on time (after filling in a few blanks in
> our documentation). But I only did the website updates tonight. I seem to
> have run into a small problem there- when I download the release tarball,
> and run ./autogen.sh, i get a ./configure file which has 'UNKNOWN' as the
> package version number. This also happens with 1.1.1 as well. Is this
> happening for anyone else?
>
> allan
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> OK, I think I have done that.
>>
>> Because we are short on time I cut and pasted the release note fragments
>> from my spreadsheet into the NEWS file with Apostrophe MD file editor and
>> whipped them into shape manually.
>> First time using it and it is pretty good. Obviously, this was a manual
>> process, but it wasn't too onerous.
>>
>> I couldn't get the towncrier thingy to work anyway. I don't really have
>> much experience with python and pip. Python seems an awful lot more
>> complicated since the last time I used it :(
>>
>> I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your branch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>>
>> On 2023-02-04 18:18, m. allan noah wrote:
>>
>> Awesome, thanks! I'm working on updating doc/releases.md, which I find to
>> be hard to use. Maybe if you keep some notes on what you did, I can
>> incorporate your method instead of towncrier.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> In this case I didn't generate the towncrier files. It's a lot of faff
>>> if you don't do it as you go along.
>>> I just put them into a spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> I will try to generate the release notes from that.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> On 2023-02-04 17:57, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>
>>> I have pushed a branch called 'release-1.2.x'. I don't have this
>>> 'towncrier' thing, so maybe you can run that and merge the release notes?
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take a first stab at it on the 4th, and
>>>> see if I can follow our current instructions.
>>>>
>>>> allan
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 8:43 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have prepared the release notes whenever you are ready!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2023-01-24 08:33, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds good to me, thanks for your help. I'm traveling this week, and
>>>>> won't be able to work on this until the weekend.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 10:47 AM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2023-01-01 15:54, m. allan noah wrote:
>>>>>> > It has been nearly a year since our last release, and there have
>>>>>> been
>>>>>> > many changes and bug fixes. I'd like to get 1.2.1 released in early
>>>>>> > February. I've not done it in a few years, but I am certainly
>>>>>> willing
>>>>>> > to make the release package.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Any objections to a code freeze on Jan 22, and a release on Feb 5?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > allan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think if we are going for your proposed plan, then we are official
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> code freeze for 1.2.1.
>>>>>> If you want to proceed, I can prepare release notes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge
>>>> of my hand"
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge
>>> of my hand"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of
>> my hand"
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of
> my hand"
>


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