sane-backends,hplip,libcups: looking for maintainer
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Description
I recently lost my printer used for sane-backends and hplip tests. The new one uses proprietary HP driver not compiled for anything but arm/x86.
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/14830
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/sane-issue-on-hp-laserjet-m1132/57698
https://developers.hp.com/printos/forum/proprietary-drivers-hplip-plugins-more-archs?language=ja
Even if HP provided the driver for mips and others, I'm not sure if it will work with OpenWrt nor if the router HW could withstand the driver needs.
I can continue maintaining the package but I'll only be able to test with fake printers (sane-test). However, most issues are with USB/hplip integration. It would be better to someone with real use to take the task.
As my new device is a network printer, I'm not going to use sane,hplip in OpenWrt anymore.
libcups is just a stripped cups used as hplip build requirements (until someone maintains the full cups for OpenWrt).
I'll ping previous committers @neheb @syssi
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the sane-backends, hplip, and libcups package definitions alongside the linked OpenWrt issue, forum thread, and HP discussion. The issue does not define a specific change; completion would require an interested maintainer to take responsibility and establish how these packages can be tested and maintained.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100