Hi Erik! On 8/11/21 7:03 PM, Pfannenstein Erik wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm just trying to translate the Bullseye announcement draft and I stumbled > across some things I couldn't quite make sense of. Meybe you can help me out > and we can improve the announcement on the way. > >> <p> >> Driverless printing and scanning are possible without the need for vendor >> specific (often non-free) drivers. Most modern printers are able to use >> driverless printing implemented via CUPS and cup-filters, bullseye brings >> forward a new package, ipp-usb, which uses vendor neutral IPP-over-USB >> allowing a USB device to be treated as a network device. > > First of all, this sentence is suspciously long, maybe there was supposed to be > a period after "cup-filters" (cups-filters?). I'll correct the missing 's', on cup-filters, good catch. The missing period should be there but I went with a neutral tone since I merging 2 separate sentences and this was the first draft. We generally pull from the release notes for the announcement[1] > What puzzled me is ipp-usb. The paragraph states that it can be used to treat a > USB printer like a network printer, but CUPS can handle USB printers just fine. > Why would anyone need this so much that we mention it in a press release? Does > it help with driverless printing? which leads to this mash up on the first pass, the release notes indicate that "This leads to a suitable device being automatically set up to use a driverless backend driver when it is connected to a USB port." As that portion was not specific but included to reference the use of ipp-usb it was included. I've re-worded both sentences to hopefully make them much clearer. > >> <p> >> The Debian Med team has been taking part in the fight against COVID-19 >> by packaging software for researching the virus on the sequence level >> and for fighting the pandemic with the tools used in epidemiology. The team's >> work with Quality Assurance and Continuous integration is critical to the >> consistent reproducible results required in the sciences. >> >> A range of performance critical applications now benefite from SIMD Everywhere, > > SIMD what? OK, I searched the web, I know now what SIMD Everywhere is (it makes > certain features from x86 processors available on ARM[1]) but I'm not sure why > this is of concern of our users. They just apt-get their software and don't > care about anything else. Is it a way to tell people "whip out your RasPis, you > can run any of the med-* packages on it and they're gonna run as fast as on a > PC"? I went down the same path on this, but don't recall linking to an off-site explanation on such announcements. Ideally the wiki entry could be more substantial for this, it does however link to the upstream[2] repository which gives clearer information for the non-technical crowd. The other reason why this is included is because the Debian Med team did a lot of work on it and requested[3] the block of text you see in the release notes. I think it is fair to say for their audience of users the news is likely significant. > > Plus, I'd like it if we dropped the hard disk from "install Debian onto your > computer's hard disk" in the live media section. It has some of a oldschool > vibe to it, not only because hard disks are out of style but because nobody > talks that way anymore (people just install software "on their computers", > regardless of the storage technology). We're too modern to sound oldschool 😉 "Data Storage Device" doesn't have the same ring to it, and I don't think that we wish to ostracize the thousands of raid arrays out in the wild, many of which support our work and software mirrors. :) But technology changes and in a few years you may be onto something. [1]https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#idm120 [2]https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde [3]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987007 -- Be well, -Donald -- - ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Donald Norwood ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ B7A1 5F45 5B28 7F38 4174 ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ D5E9 E5EC 4AC9 BD62 7B05
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