- CUPS/CUPS Snap: Committed all patches on CUPS to work in a Snap into CUPS upstream. Now the CUPS Snap has only 2 patches left on CUPS, which do not have to with the fact that we run CUPS in a Snap. With CUPS 2.4.0 which will get released soon, the CUPS Snap will most probably not need patches at all on CUPS. Also applied @jamesh’s new snapctl-via library-function so that CUPS does not need to do an external executable call for each administrative inquiry to be verified. General improvements and fixes: “usb” CUPS backend to run as root (also upstream issue), paths and plugs of the “apps” entries, QPDF 10.3.0. Still waiting for the interface auto-connection activation, all votes are in: @alexmurray, @popey, @kyrofa, thanks for your votes!
- CUPS Snap, PostScript Printer Application: Posted call for testing on Discourse and on the Snapcraft Forum. Also posted examples for client Snaps which print and which manage CUPS.
- PAPPL: To support future GUI tools posted 2 feature requests for the Printer Application’s command line interface: Show a list of contained drivers with supported device IDs and functionality to ask whether a given printer is supported.
- QPDF: Synced 10.3.0 from Debian into Hirsute.
- sane-airscan: Still waiting for the MIR to get reviewed by the security team. Feature Freeze for Hirsute has passed, and I had posted the MIR in time for Groovy already.
- Google Summer of Code 2021: Following the discussions about printer auto-setup and GUI tools for printer management posted two additional project ideas for OpenPrinting: GUI for listing and managing available IPP Print/Scan services (or DNS-SD-advertised network services in general) and GUI to guide the user to the correct Printer Application. Continued mentoring candidates on working on cups-filters and CUPS GitHub issues as part of the selection process. Update: The Linux Foundation got accepted as mentoring organization by Google!
- OpenPrinting: Monthly video meeting and March news post.
- Bugs.
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