From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IARRS-0003ab-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:20:50 -0400 Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1466743A4 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:17:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC6A2BDA5 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:17:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <01bb01c7c7b3$f1c52110$4ba65c90@vv507j> From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070715064603.GA26918@techlab><20070715143758.GA13328@sunset.net> <20070715163625.GA10814@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: gentoo drops speakup Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:16:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:20:50 -0000 > This isn't big news, speakup works just fine the way it is up to and > including 2.6.21.6. I would not be at all surprised therefore if > slackware were to drop speakup by their next release, if the current > issues with speakup weren't fixed by that time. It would surprise me > greatly though to see a distro's team of maintainers take it upon > themselves to cure speakup's serial code and other problems, just so > they could include a speakup-patched kernel in their next > release. Note, I am not saying myself that speakup has problems, I > haven't looked at the code for a while. I'm just repeating what others > have said on this in the past, so no flames if you please. I would like to know what, if anything, can be done to get the resources allocated that are needed to fix this problem. Could the kernel development team fix it if they wanted to? What determines their priorities and where does the development time come from? I wonder if it would help to draw attention to the problem. What is the NFB doing about this? They are always talking about jobs. It seems to me that a lot of jobs for blind people depend on speakup. It's conceivable that a group like the NFB might even be willing to put up enough money to have somebody work on it for 3 months or 6 months or whatever it would take to fix the problem. Who knows? It might be worth exploring anyway. But maybe I'm out of bounds. I don't want to step on anybody's toes. I don't think it would be worthwhile for me to volunteer to work on the code. But if I can help in some other way...