1. Versioning Scheme

Since 2007 march 29, Gnome Scan use a number versionning similar to Gnome.

• In X.Y.Z, X is the major version number, Y the minor version number, and Z the revision.
• Odd Y mean development series
• When Y is odd, Z below 90 means alpha, Z higher than 90 means beta.

Since 2008 february the 24th, Gnome Scan follow Gnome release schedule.

2. Roadmap

• 0.6: Gnome Scan rewrite.

  • feature parity with 0.4 (done)

  • dynamic dialog building (done)

  • module system (done)

  • migrate to GeglBuffer (done)

  • file backend (done)

  • Dynamic processing pipeline based on Gegl (done)

  • settings auto store/load in GConf (done)

• 0.8:

  • Slice GnomeScanDialog in order to ease the build of custom scan dialog : dialog with tabs, device selector, param group, param page, preview.

  • Rework param to be more gconf compliant (save to string, load from string) and less hackish (proper signal for changes, etc.)

  • Drop GnomeScanAcquisitionDialog to GnomeScanAquisitionWidget used for either preview acquisition or final aquisition

  • Investigate unpaper in Gegl

  • Investigate preliminary LibAccroc

  • Investigate hald-addon-scanner backend