Can we find someone to continue developing ebook-speaker and daisy-player now that we lost Jos Lemmens?

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Sat Jan 8 18:48:23 GMT 2022


Hello,

Paul Gevers, le sam. 08 janv. 2022 19:43:01 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 07-01-2022 15:17, Florian Wille wrote:
> > As to maintaing the package/code I don't think I can do that right now,
> > but I am certainly willing to read myself into his code and start
> > understanding it and in the future maybe working on it.
> > Someone would have to push it to github right? As I remenmber Jos did
> > not maintain the code there.
> 
> I believe Jos didn't use a versioning system (at least, I never saw it, Jos
> never pointed me at it and I never bothered to try and convince him to use
> one). If more history is lacking, the Debian package archive would serve as
> a good starting point I guess.
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/daisy-player
> https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/ebook-speaker

The upstream branch there contains a series of the various releases
indeed.  Upstream doesn't seem to contain the old releases, so the
upstream branch of the Debian repo is possibly the best git history we
can have.

Samuel



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