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<title>sane-devel: Re: Release early, release often</title>
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<h1>Re: Release early, release often</h1>
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<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:38:56 +0100 (GMT)</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0108.html">Adam Williams: "Possible xsane bug?"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0106.html">Irv Thomae: "Re: Microtek E3 won't scan, but II-G okay (SANE-OS/2)"</a>
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<li> <b>In reply to:</b> <a href="0101.html">Petter Reinholdtsen: "Release early, release often"</a>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:<br>
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<i>> I'm one of the strange programmers who beleave in the slogan "Release</i><br>
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<i>> early, release often". I find the release rate of SANE too late and</i><br>
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<i>> too slow.</i><br>
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Unfortunately I have to agree. In theory, SANE 1.0 should have been a<br>
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good solid release, which many users would never have had cause to<br>
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replace (at least until they upgraded their OS)<br>
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In practise there were two problems with this:<br>
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(1) SANE didn't deserve that 1.0 sticker. The 1.0.1 release should have<br>
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gone out the door DAYS not MONTHS later. The same bugs were reported<br>
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time and again to the list, and David was busy doing other things.<br>
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I think the worst of this will soon be past. There are some elusive bugs<br>
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in the transport code, and a lot of usability issues (some solved by<br>
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XSane) but it feels more solid now than it was six months ago.<br>
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(2) Scanners, like almost all PC hardware, change quickly and always<br>
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choose lower costs and more features over compatability with previous<br>
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models. HP being the nearest to a genuine exception. SANE drivers take<br>
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long enough to arrive as it is, without waiting for a major release.<br>
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TIME though, is a limiting factor. Does someone have the TIME to do the<br>
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thankless donkey-work required for Release Early and Often on a big<br>
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project like SANE?<br>
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Nick.<br>
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