Hello Alessandro Zummo, > Hello sane developers, > > Some weeks ago I introduced (once again) the discussion > about SANE future. Now is time to take action. > > The situation is that we have coders willing to implement > the SANE2 standard (whatever this will be) for a bunch of backends > but are missing the people required to revamp sanei, the build > system and the frontends. > > The standard itself is not complete, but this is something > that can be fixed. > > However, we already have lost too much time in this limbo. > Not even a decade :)
> I would like to run a poll (suggestions for good poll web sites > are accepted) asking user and devs what they think about the > SANE future. > > The poll options will be: > > - Reopen development on SANE1 > - Fork SANE1 > - Wait SANE2 indefinitely > Or "evolve a fork of SANE1 into SANE2". > I will gladly accept suggestions for other options > as long as they are credible. i.e. "Develop SANE2" > will not be accepted unless it includes a list of > developers that are going to make it happen. > > I'm sorry for being a bit rough, but time is > passing by and we need to go somewhere. > All it takes is a motivated person. I can provide a some of my time to help, but I cannot commit to much. I have found an e-mail I wrote a few years back, which remains so true to me: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2003-August/008482.html Frank.
