On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Rolf Leggewie <debian-b...@rolf.leggewie.biz> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I request assistance with maintaining the scim package. > > scim comprises software to input complex characters in non-latin languages > such as Chinese Hanzi, Japanese Kanji or Korean Hangul and others. It > enjoys widespread and growing use. scim is scheduled to be eventually > obsoleted by ibus. scim still has five times the user base and that base > in Debian is actually still growing faster than that of ibus. Developer > interest in scim has mostly faded away both in Debian and upstream. > How did you get this data, such as *five times*, and how you know it is *growing*?
> My goal as maintainer is to keep the package usable for the benefits of its > users. That means making sure the package is free of RC bugs, adheres > to policy and submitted patches are eventually integrated. It does not > include original development and repeated calls for it in the past were > simply misguided. > > My co-maintainer requested to step down and I thank him for his support in the > past. Because of my limited time and skills I prefer to maintain most of my > packages in a team of at least two and thus would call for an interested > individual to step forward to fill the gap. Any area that you can help would > be appreciated and I would also be willing to do some limited mentorship for > someone getting their feet wet in packaging software. I understand packaging > reasonably well but I'm not a good coder, somebody with complimentary skillset > would be the perfect match. > > The packaging work is published in > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/scim.git > > The package description is: > Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is an input method (IM) platform. Input > methods are needed to enter complex characters in many non-latin languages. > SCIM provides a common platform for various plugin modules and independent IM > programs, as well as a set of modules and programs on its own. It is highly > modularized and exposes abstract interfaces, so that plugin modules with > different functions can easily communicate with each other. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20120224083015.18324.67481.report...@www.google-analytics.com > -- YunQiang Su -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKcpw6Wuj3kvj39YG7HEAi-Xfs=pdduwswk4v0wob9alc_g...@mail.gmail.com
