[Opentts-dev] Speech-dispatcher, OpenTTS, and the outcome of my discussion with Brailcom staff.

[Rui Batista]

Hi,
Qui, 2010-07-29 ?s 10:03 +0200, Tomas Cerha escreveu:
> Dne 29.7.2010 06:14, Trevor Saunders napsal(a):
> > While I'm not quiet sure what you mean "regular contributor" I'm not
> > sure I like having to fill out a form to contribute.  I don't see how
> > it helps anyone to make people fill out a form before they send
> > patches.
> 
> You will simply create an account, which will give you access to the bug
> tracker, the wiki and maybe some other things in the future.  While
> registering, you will just indicate whether you agree with the
> contributors agreement.  We considered whether it is not too much
> bureaucracy, but we believe it is not and it is important enough.

I agree we must have an account to edit the wiki, bug tracker and so on,
but is that information public for reading? For instance, in the GNOME
bugzilla you need an account to create new bugs but for viewing anyone
can do that. Is something like this you are planning?
> 
Rui 
> > ok, sounds good, I noticed that some of the commit messages in the
> > speechd tree didn't follow the standard format for git commit
> > messages, sometimes weren't very descriptive, and had some rather
> > obvious spelling errors.  I understand that english may not be your
> > native language, it is mine, but I'm a terrible speller anyway :-),
> > but would you guys mind being a little better about this? it should
> > help everyone I would think, if nothing else it means git shortlog
> > gives you something useful.
> 
> That will definitely be one of the rules applied quite strictly to
> anyone (Brailcom staff and externals equally).
> 
> > Ok, I'm not sure what the idea or reason for a special accessible web
> > developement platform is but anyway this sounds good.
> 
> Well, if you say "special accessible", it sounds suspicious, but you
> should not notice anything special, apart that it simply is accessible.
> 
> > What are the chances bugs could be minipulated with email?  This is a useful
> > feature of a few bug trackers I know of.
> 
> We used to have that, but no one used it, so we didn't implement that in
> the current system.  If you wish to contribute that (the system is open
> source, of course), that might be interesting.
> 
> > ok, I hope users do benefit my main concern is this.  Supose Braille
> > Comm doesn't have money  to work on speech dispatcher etc,
> 
> Could, please, people try to spell Brailcom as we do? ;-)
> 
> > will mechanisms be put in place to allow the comunity to move forward with
> > developement while Braille Comm waits for funding, or will the
> > community be stuck with the current status until Braille Comm gets
> > more money like happened previously?
> 
> We tried to address it in the rules.  They explicitly say that external
> devs may become patch reviewers and that the maintainer may be
> substituted when, for any reason, not able to do the necessary work.
> 
> > 1. Personally I tend to prefer kr / kernel style to gnu,but whatever,
> > however I think autoformating with Lindent or something similar is a
> > good policy.
> 
> We plan to make a major formatting cleanup sometimes at the beginning of
> the 0.8 release cycle.  The style rules may be fine tuned until that time.
> 
> > 2. unless someone has an objection, I can't imagine why they would
> > though, I think setting up a irc channel to discuss developement work,
> > and help work out issues with users is very useful.  What I mean is
> > that while email is good, sometimes something more real time is
> > better.
> 
> IRC is quite a matter of personal preference.  I personally prefer async
> communication, but setting up a channel is not a problem as long as you
> don't want me to be there.  <smile>
> 
> > 3. it would be nice if there was a little bit more discussion on the
> > speechd list about what developement was happening, and what was about
> > to get committed, however this is everyones responsibility.
> 
> That is definitely one of the things we want to improve from our side.
> 
> Best regards, Tomas
> 
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