Re: 5.3.5 status?

Hi Solomon, thanks.

1) I can keep doing the tests I can on my printer.

2) If you can coach me on how to do this, I can try to help.


My thoughts on items 3-6:

It seems logical to finalize this release of gutenprint before
migrating to another hosting site, updating the website, and tackling
the migration to GIMP 3 and working up the printer application. If
nothing else, a reasonable way to break the whole shebang into
reasonable chunks.

I can certainly help with website updates once a new home (getting off
sourceforge) is chosen; maybe even do some work before then.

Regards,

Erik


On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:53:22 -0500
Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:07:24PM -0500, Erik Beck of Tahoma wrote:
> > Solomon, how can I and others help?  
> 
> It's those big ticket items.  
> 
> 1) Testing on actual printers
> 
>  Other than my dyesub fleet I have no idea if anything else still
> works on real hardware.  Not that there have been a lot (if any?)
> changes elsewhere...
> 
> 2) Regression testing vs older versions
> 
>  There is the src/testpattern/Checksums directory in the tree; I need
> to figure out how to generate a new batch and compare it to the
> previous release's run.  Then go through the ones that differ and
> make sure they were intentionally changed.
> 
> 3) Update web site and other public documentation
> 
>  * Extract current printer lists for the www site and update
> accordingly
>  * Make it clear everywhere that MacOS is no longer supported
>    (at least outside of MacPorts or Fink or whatever)
>  * (Really, the entire web site should probably be replaced..)
> 
> Longer-term things:
> 
> 4) Port gimp plugin to GEGL and GIMP3
> 
>  Earlier tonight I started getting the basic plumbing in place to
> make a gimp-3 plugin possible. While I don't expect the actual
> gimp-interacing bits will be terribly complicated (beyond handing
> >8bpp image data formats) the real uplift is porting the gutenprintui
> >library from gtk2 
>  to gtk3.
> 
> 5) Picking up the Standalone gutenprint printer application
> 
>  The GSoC project completed the initial phase, but a lot of work
> remains -- general integration and cleanup, the inevitable testing,
> and (particularly important for me) getting the dyesub backend in,
> which is likely to take some serious restructuring of how it is put
> together.
> 
>  This matters because it's realistically going to be the only usable 
>  path forward for gutenprint in the medium term.
>  
> 6) Getting off of sourceforge
> 
>  I'm personally partial to sourcehut, if only because they consider 
>  mailing lists (and email in general) to be first-class tools.
> 
>  The only things on sourceforge that matter are the mailing list 
>  archives and the old release archive.  Both are extractable, though 
>  sourceforge now "helpfully" strips out email address.  I don't know
> if that will prevent re-importing elsewhere.
> 
> That's off the top of my head...
> 
>  - Solomon