2012/4/18 Fuminobu TAKEYAMA <ftake@geeko.jp>:
Hi, Marguerite Su and M17N maintainers,
I am confused by the big patch for Fcitx added to the mozc package yesterday without any reviews and discussion.
Hi, ftake, yes, I don't why either, when I created the request, no reviewer is automatically added. only me, and I have no review option but to accept.
My concern is that this patch decrease maintainability of that package.
As you know, Mozc's release cycle is very short. Who will maintain the patch? Will Fcitx maintainers (including the patch developer?) release new patch for every Mozc release? I cannot think they will do so, as long as I read their website.
Fcitx developers and maintainers will do. I think you just see http://code.google.com/p/fcitx/download. actually it's their "release" website. fcitx-mozc is fast developed at https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-mozc
This is why the openSUSE packaging policy says "Ask upstream first", right?
absolutely right, but this time it's Fcitx upstream developers that asked me to add so.
It is, however, good news that fcitx support Mozc. I guess this can be demonstrated by creating separated OBS package like fcitx-mozc if some header files of mozc are packaged.
yes, I'm glad to say Mozc users have a third input method to taste. it's not possible I have to say. you know how Mozc is developed and packaged. there's actually no such header file. fcitx in M17N has many derivatives, and it has a not-released-yet fcitx-anthy in home:opensuse_zh. if it could be done that way, it would already be done. I bcc-ed fcitx core developer, and he'll explain that tech thing in detail.
Anyway, I would like to roll back for now because mozc is now really essential package for Japanese users. If the patch is the best solution and users need fcitx support, shall we add the patch again?
Fcitx-mozc is also essential for some group of fcitx Japanese users. I think as packagers we have no obvious reason to drop a successful and well-maintained feature. by adding it, fcitx OBS maintainers will also have to maintain mozc, there're 4 active maintainers on OBS, personally I think it's good to add maintianers to such a essential package. openSUSE is the best distro that fcitx supports. fcitx developers are also on OBS( home:csslayer:fcitx* ). so there's no need to worry the unmaintained thing that early. it really hurts someone's feeling.
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