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Maybe a community fork can thrive? This (potentially) personally affects my home print setup.

Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Who in their right mind is going to dedicate their free time to writing printer drivers in 2020? Forking solves the problem of a poor maintainer holding up things, it doesn't just spawn interested developers out of nowhere.
- tonyedgecombe 6y ago
  You would think the printer manufacturers would have an interest in keeping this well maintained. Sadly I can't see it happening.
  - anaganisk 6y ago
    Printers or open-source, choose one.
    - bgorman 6y ago
      Say what you want about HP, but they have open source Linux drivers for all of their printers https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing Everything works perfectly.
      - mkesper 6y ago
        Beware, many new multifunction printers require proprietary plugins for scanning (and even some pure printers require it for working at all). https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/binary_plugin.html https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/bina...
      - Xylakant 6y ago
        Owning a few HP devices and using Linux, I’d be careful using “perfectly” in that context. It’s better than others, but for example scanning tends to fail sometimes when libraries get updated etc. There’s a few more nitpicks around paper selection, dual side printing etc.
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      - dane-pgp 6y ago
        > Everything works perfectly. Well, as long as you don't mind changing your init system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974
- threeseed 6y ago
  There are 23 Open PRs. So clearly some developers are willing to contribute and improve it.
barumi 6y ago
> Maybe a community fork can thrive? Are you willing to drive that project and work on patches? Because wishing upon "maybe a community fork" is just wishing that someone else should do what you expect to be done.
bipson 6y ago
Maybe not a community fork, but I can think of several Linux Distro "Owners"/Communities/Companies that need a working printer service for their "products", e.g. RedHat/IBM, Suse, Canonical? Would it be too far fetched if one of them starts maintaining/sheltering a fork - at least to fix bugs? Maybe even with the help of the other interested parties (in an ideal world)? I cannot imagine IBM wants to sit on a Fedora Workstation release with a buggy printing service.

Who in their right mind is going to dedicate their free time to writing printer drivers in 2020? Forking solves the problem of a poor maintainer holding up things, it doesn't just spawn interested developers out of nowhere.

tonyedgecombe 6y ago
You would think the printer manufacturers would have an interest in keeping this well maintained. Sadly I can't see it happening.
- anaganisk 6y ago
  Printers or open-source, choose one.
  - bgorman 6y ago
    Say what you want about HP, but they have open source Linux drivers for all of their printers https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing Everything works perfectly.
    - mkesper 6y ago
      Beware, many new multifunction printers require proprietary plugins for scanning (and even some pure printers require it for working at all). https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/binary_plugin.html https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/bina...
    - Xylakant 6y ago
      Owning a few HP devices and using Linux, I’d be careful using “perfectly” in that context. It’s better than others, but for example scanning tends to fail sometimes when libraries get updated etc. There’s a few more nitpicks around paper selection, dual side printing etc.
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    - dane-pgp 6y ago
      > Everything works perfectly. Well, as long as you don't mind changing your init system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974
threeseed 6y ago
There are 23 Open PRs. So clearly some developers are willing to contribute and improve it.

barumi 6y ago

> Maybe a community fork can thrive? Are you willing to drive that project and work on patches? Because wishing upon "maybe a community fork" is just wishing that someone else should do what you expect to be done.

bipson 6y ago

Maybe not a community fork, but I can think of several Linux Distro "Owners"/Communities/Companies that need a working printer service for their "products", e.g. RedHat/IBM, Suse, Canonical? Would it be too far fetched if one of them starts maintaining/sheltering a fork - at least to fix bugs? Maybe even with the help of the other interested parties (in an ideal world)? I cannot imagine IBM wants to sit on a Fedora Workstation release with a buggy printing service.