Speech Dispatcher 0.8.1

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi folks,
There has been many a bugfix since 0.8, which was released well over a year 
ago. I think its time that a bugfix release was made, which will be 0.8.1. 
However there are still some known bugs that should be fixed first before 
releasing.

For starters, there are some bugs on the speech-dispatcher bug tracker that 
need to be fixed, as they either break functionality of other software, or may 
cause a client application to crash. The speech-dispatcher bug tracker can be 
found at [1].

If you know of any other important bugs that you feel should be addressed, 
please consider filing them on the bug tracker, or posting to the list. Longer 
term, I would like to use the bug tracker more heavily, but for now, since I am 
not yet set up with access to change bug status etc, the mailing list is fine.

If you are able to help fix any of the bugs posted to the list, or on the 
tracker, please feel free to submit patches to the mailing list, and they will 
be reviewed in due course. I plan to release a test build of speech-dispatcher 
0.8.1 in mid June, which gives us some time to address the bugs in question. 
Pushing the test release back will be considered if any other critical bugs 
arrise in the mean time.

Why a test release? There are some functionality changes in speech-dispatcher 
git, particularly for the ibmtts driver, which could do with some wider 
testing. There is also a change to the libao audio output driver that although 
a bugfix, could do with some wider testing, given that different distros may 
have different versions of libao, or may build it differently.

Luke

[1] https://its.freebsoft.org/its/issues/project/1876