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<h1>Release early, release often</h1>
<b>Petter Reinholdtsen</b> (<a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com"><i>pere@hungry.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:11:23 +0200</i>
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I'm one of the strange programmers who beleave in the slogan "Release<br>
early, release often".  I find the release rate of SANE too late and<br>
too slow.<br>
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To get the "current" version of SANE, I have to fetch the latest<br>
release and patches from all over the world to get the latest backends<br>
and frontends.  I beleave this is a problem easily solved using<br>
version control software and by giving more then one person write<br>
access to the master source.  With a public read-only source tree, us<br>
wanting to do development on SANE don't have to wait 3-6 months to see<br>
if our patches made into the distribution.<br>
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To solve this problem I sat up a CVS tree at cvs.hungry.com with<br>
public read-only access from anoncvs.hungry.com, and gave the current<br>
maintainer David write access to the server.  Before the backend<br>
maintainers get write access, David have to say OK.<br>
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The CVS tree is hardly used at all.  I beleave the reason for this is<br>
that David is unfamiliar with CVS, and also want to keep the master<br>
source under his control, and not on some random source code<br>
repository set up by a complete stranger.  I hope I'm mistaken.<br>
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If this situation don't change, I've been thinking about using the CVS<br>
server for SANE development myself, collecting all reasonable patches<br>
and commiting them into my own branch, releasing snapshots every week<br>
(or more often), like Alan Cox is releasing his experimental version<br>
of Linux.  I do not want to do this, as it will generate a code fork,<br>
and unless most or all SANE developers colaborates, the CVS version<br>
would be only for my benifit.<br>
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Am I wasting my time?<br>
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Among the things I would like to fix with SANE are Win32 support,<br>
better network support (access control and encrypted communication)<br>
and improving SnapScan and Coolscan backends.  Until the development<br>
model changes, it seems a waste to start working on these.<br>
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