On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 5:36 AM Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I attended Open Printing Micro Conference at Linux Plumbers Conference
yesterday and took notes from sessions (full notes are as an attachment).
Here are the highlights:
- the schedule for the first no-driver was proposed - approximately GA
in February 2023 - but IMO it depends how other projects will be ready,
especially GUI toolkits and applications will need to be able to cope up
with temporary queues
- CUPS upstream introduced a new role - a release manager - which will
review PRs, do github cleanups, investigate issues, release bugfix
versions for duration of one Y-stream release (about one year duty) -
I've volunteered to be the first manager for CUPS 2.4
- proposed a split-up of CUPS to a separate projects based on the area
where it is used - CLI command tools, libcups, local cups server
(lightweight daemon, running under user on demand, no web ui, no
permanent queues, relies only on temporary queues, dbus-api, accessible
via domain socket or dbus), sharing cups server (basically the current
cupsd - web ui, only permanent queues, listens on IPP port, runs under root)
- several other printer applications was implemented by Till
Kamppeter[1][2][3][4] - Till makes it available as Snaps, I'm planning
to package it into Fedora as rpm first, then later as a flatpacks
How would these even work as Flatpaks? They are not graphical
applications or even console applications. These are helper services
for CUPS. I wouldn't expect those to work in Flatpak at all.
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