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

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

Le 08/01/2022 à 19:48, Samuel Thibault a écrit :

>> 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.

I attach some more that I had downloaded just in case Jose would remove them -
which he probably did before Kees stored the remaining files.

Also, I read on the home page now
http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/
"His VPS server was closed recently and this website is now temporarily hosted
at the TU Delft."

Samuel will you consult with Kees to find a permanent place to host this website?

Also, as Jean-Philippe wrote:
> As for speech-dispacther via Samuel, Hypra can handle this tool, at least for
> maintainance and patch review. We will not add features I think, but if we can
> fix bugs or ensure it works in the future, we will do, yes.

should I understand that the Debian package archive is where the development
will continue, and then can non-Debianers file PR or issues there?

As an aside, Kees told me that he moved from Slackware to Debian about ten years
ago ;)

Cheers,

Didier


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