[gentoo-dev] app-dict team needs help

[Dennis Lan (dlan)]

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> the app-dict team is almost-non existent altho it provides one of the most
> core features for our daily desktop usage as without dictionaries and spell
> checking we could not imagine much work nowdays.
>
> So what is needed there:
>
> aspell - all various bugs around, per language file bumps here and there,
> cleanup and provide new eclass for aspell packages, current one is
> needlesly
> complex.
>
> myspell(hunspell): finish migration to myspell-r1 on the remaining
> packages,
> find more upstreams and include the lang files into the distribution. Most
> important here is that we have dicts for english from 2007 and they were
> updated a lot in last 6 years when i check the git in libreoffice dicts
> (but
> there is no upstream indication).
>
> stardict: trivial bugs around but i don't use stardict.
>
> Hi Tomas
   I'm a stardict user, let me know what I can help


> I check this herd as I need it for nice and compfy libreoffice usage, but
> mostly I am not devoting much to it, so if you guys happen to have spare
> cycles, please take look for your languages/etc and updated&cleanup, also
> if
> you happen to fill stablereq, just cc arches directly there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom