Hi, Alan, We (G11N input-method engineer team) are actually the people who maintaining the solaris porting of libchewing, scim-chewing, and iiimf-twle-chewing (we also developed this one). :)
Regards, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > All that having a contract means is that within the developer groups > working on these two projects for Solaris/OpenSolaris there is an > agreement that if a change is to be made to the library that the scim > people will be notified. > > This looks a lot closer to what you actually want. > > alan. > > Yong Sun wrote: >> No, I don't intend to promote it to committed, probably uncommitted >> is fine. >> >> I attached all API changes (in diff format), most of them are about >> initialization, configuration, and candidate iterating. And some >> interfaces are removed (or moved to internal private), like >> char/utf8_char utilities, user_phrase manipulating, zuin/pinyin >> utilities. >> >> And libchewing, scim-chewing, iiimf-twle-chewing are all community >> opensource softwares. I don't know if we need/could have a contract >> for them. >> >> Regards, >> >> Alan Hargreaves wrote: >>> So, if I read the prior cases correctly, you are promoting >>> libchewing form Project/Private to something else (Committed?) and >>> we do have some incompatible changes to interfaces. >>> >>> Can you perhaps outline what the incompatible changes are? >>> >>> Might it be a better idea to leave the stability of libchewing as it >>> currently is (Project/Private under the old stability system) and >>> have contract scim-chewing take out a contract? >>> >>> My feeling is that if you want to raise the stability, this case >>> should probably be promoted to a fast track. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alan Hargreaves >>> >>> >>> Yong Sun wrote: >>>> Hi, Alan, Garrett, >>>> >>>> Thanks for reviewing. >>>> >>>> The initial integration of libchewing is covered in PSARC/2005/525, >>>> as a project private interface, located in /usr/lib/iiim. And when >>>> scim is integrated (covered in PSARC/2008/418), libchewing is >>>> required both by scim-chewing and iiimf-twle-chewing, so it's moved >>>> to /usr/lib. >>>> >>>> Currently, there is no other client applications depends on >>>> libchewing, besides scim-chewing and iiimf-twle-chewing. >>>> >>>> Here is the release announcement for version 0.3.2, which lists the >>>> what's new, >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/chewing/browse_thread/thread/0067e04c8ea29ff3, >>>> >>>> please read the bottom half for the English version. >>>> >>>> And yes, I only require a minor binding. I will update the case >>>> material to include this info. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Alan Hargreaves wrote: >>>>> I am concerned that this update breaks compatibility, yet is being >>>>> done as a self review. Are there any other consumers of this >>>>> library that could potentially be broken by this update? If so, >>>>> how will this be dealt with? >>>>> >>>>> What binding are you looking for? As I only see nevada/opensolaris >>>>> mentioned, I am assuming minor. >>>>> >>>>> Can you mention the case number which contains the prior >>>>> interfaces/bindings? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Alan Hargreaves >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yong Young Sun wrote: >>>>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >>>>>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >>>>>> 1. Introduction >>>>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>>>>> Update libchewing from 0.3.0 to 0.3.2 >>>>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>>>>> Author: Yong Sun >>>>>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>>>>> 27 July, 2009 >>>>>> >>>>>> 4. Technical Description >>>>>> >>>>>> libchewing is a popular library for Traditional Chinese input >>>>>> method engine >>>>>> licensed in LGPLv2.1. And there are some input methods, like >>>>>> iiimf-twle-chewing, scim-chewing depends on this library to >>>>>> provide input >>>>>> services to users. >>>>>> >>>>>> The version currently shipped in nevada/opensolaris is 0.3.0, >>>>>> while the >>>>>> community recently released a newer version, 0.3.2. In this >>>>>> new release, >>>>>> the API/ABI compatiblities were broken, and some new features >>>>>> are added. >>>>>> >>>>>> iiimf-twle-chewing and scim-chewing had been updated to work >>>>>> with 0.3.2, >>>>>> we therefore need to deliver the updated version to >>>>>> nevada/opensolaris. >>>>>> >>>>>> The interfaces (header files and shared library) remain the >>>>>> same as >>>>>> before. >>>>>> >>>>>> 6. Resources and Schedule >>>>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >>>>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >>>>>> Globalization >>>>>> 6.5. ARC review type: Automatic >>>>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
