[Printing-architecture] Re: [Printing-japan] Re: The new "OpenPrinting Testing and Certification Program" Web Page

[Till Kamppeter]

I have added a note to the page now. It will be updated after the Tokyo 
OpenPrinting Meeting.

    Till


SHIDA, Keisho wrote:
> Till:
> 
> Please act one of the following item immediately.
> We believe that it mislead the people have no back ground of these discussion
> 
> 1. Delete the pages
> 2. Date it as you described if it was available in August 2006 but we never seen as Glen.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Shida
> ===
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:18:58 +0900
> Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This page is old/obsolete (last edited Aug 2006). It needs to be updated 
>> with the results we obtain this Friday here in Tokyo.
>>
>>     Till
>>
>> Petrie, Glen wrote:
>>> Till,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I just noticed on the OpenPrinting web page a new page on "OpenPrinting 
>>> Testing and Certification Program" with the expressed goal
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Here we will develop a distribution-independent testing and 
>>> certification program for printers and printer drivers. The goal of this 
>>> program is that
>>>
>>> *LSB-certified printer + LSB-certified OS distribution = Just works!*
>>>
>>> It should be agreed on a test program which covers use cases appropriate 
>>> to the printers and gives ratings on how well the functionalities of the 
>>> printer work with free Linux/Unix operating systems. The results should 
>>> be published in the linuxprinting.org printer database.
>>>
>>> … and the section …
>>>
>>>
>>>       *Certification *
>>>
>>> A printer should be certified by FSG OpenPrinting when it succeeds in 
>>> the tests and when the driver is either in the standard repertoire of 
>>> the distributions, downloadable as distribution-independent package from 
>>> linuxprinting.org or coming as distribution-independent package with the 
>>> printer, so that the printer installs out-of-the-box from any 
>>> LSB-compliant distribution.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I am a little surprised to see this page with goal.   At the last two 
>>> summit meetings, the Printer Manufactures all agreed that they did not 
>>> support an "OpenPrinting Testing and Certification Program" but would 
>>> support a “Self Validation Program”.   As a member of the Open Printing 
>>> Steering Committee I don’t remember the discussion of having an 
>>> "OpenPrinting Testing and Certification Program".  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Can you clarify if the page promoting a “Certification Program” or a 
>>> “Self-Validation Program”?   If the intent is a “Self-Validation 
>>> Program”, then I would encourage you to change the wording.  If the 
>>> intent is to be a “Certification Program” I would like to know if 
>>> printer manufactures are willing to support it.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> See: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/TestingCertification
>>>
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