Hello, just my few personal thoughts...
While I respect anyone's freedom to take on the work that we started and continue in a direction he believes is the best, I am not quite convinced that making a fork is necessary and helpful. The announcement started by a question "Why Fork Speech Dispatcher and Related Projects?", but I can't find anything that would answer the question for me even if I pretty much agree with all what was written below. It is true, that GPL grants the freedom to do it, that the importance of Speech Dispatcher grew over the time and that the non-profit organization Brailcom didn't find resources to finance the development in the last two years. But I fail to find a convincing reason in these facts. Brailcom has always officially supported the work done by Luke Yelavich and others. We linked Luke's git from the official Speech Dispatcher web page and we were trying to promote this work where possible. We also put at least some minimal effort into reviewing how the development continues and plan to make an official release (yes, without being able to promise the exact date) and we constantly put significant effort in attempts to find resources for continuation of the work and we believe we will succeed (though, as we announced, we can not promise anything, as it does not depend on our decision). I am just afraid, that having two projects with two names and different directions will not be really practical. What particularly is the key problem in the current model where the actual development takes place in Luke's git repo? I don't say it is ideal, but maybe there is less to do to make it better, then making a fork and renaming... Best regards, Tomas Cerha _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
