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On Mon, 13 May 2019 11:02:40 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:23:02PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 11 May 2019 16:27:16 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > > # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (11 May 2019) |
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> > > # Outdated, EAPI=2, unmaintained, segfaults immediately. |
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> > Hm, it definitely doesn't segfault for me... |
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> > Works like charm right now. |
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> ... |
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> > If someone wants to take them, go ahead. If nobody volunteers, I'll |
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> > take at least festival and festival-ru after a few weeks. |
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> Everything else Andreas says is correct. |
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> Festival is outdated (2.4 is available upstream) and it is eapi 2, |
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> so if we are going to maintain it, we need to bump and move to EAPI 7, |
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> then we need to look into all of the reverse dependencies and either |
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> update or remove them. |
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> Festival and its rdeps ar a beast, so if anyone wants to take them, |
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> be prepared for a lot of work. Please leave the accessibility project |
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> as a backup maintainer. I don't know how the sound project feels about |
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> being involved in the maintenance, so imo ask them also. |
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I can't handle everything, so let's start from something small, one |
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task per step. I think updating festival and some of its |
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localizations will be a good start. |
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I'm interesting in festival because quality of pronounced text is |
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the best I know of and sometimes I have problems with "how to |
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pronounce this stuff poperly". |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |