[aur-general] ibus orphans in [community]

[Rashif Ray Rahman]

On 17 October 2012 00:55, Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to point out that ibus does Japanese and Korean, whereas
> fcitx only does simplified Chinese (at least according to the wiki).
> Thus ibus is one of the only input options for those languages on arch
> at the moment (barring that other one whose name I'm having trouble
> recalling at the moment, which I found inferior to ibus), so dropping it
> is extremely unfavorable I think.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Allen Li
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Alexander Rødseth wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> ibus is used for keyboard input for a few major non-English languages.
>>
>> Several of the ibus packages has been unmaintained for a while now:
>> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=Community&q=ibus&maintainer=orphan
>> For instance, ibus-sunpinyin, was last updated almost a year ago (2011-10-02).
>>
>> These ibus-packages have survived at least one package-cleanup, being
>> neither adopted nor moved.
>> While there is interest amongst the trusted users to maintain these,
>> none of the trusted users are currently using ibus.
>>
>> After visiting #archlinux-cn, a couple of friendly people expressed
>> interest in maintaining the ibus packages, but they had only few
>> packages on AUR to show for.
>> I also learned that mostly, fcitx (currently in [extra], is used
>> instead of ibus). Dropping ibus could have been an option, but I also
>> heard rumors that ibus will be a dependency of gnome-settings-daemon.
>>
>> There is also a canidate for asking to maintain the ibus packages,
>> that has not yet been contacted, but which already maintains several
>> related packages on AUR:
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=yangtsesu&SeB=m
>>
>> If you think that his packages look ok, my plan is to contact
>> yangtsesu and ask if he wants to maintain the ibus packages in
>> [community] (and thus becoming a TU).
>>
>> If you know of other canidates that have a comparable selection of
>> relevant AUR packages, please let us know who they are.
>>
>> Please correct me if any of the above is incorrect or let us know if
>> you have additional information.
>>
>> Sounds like a plan?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cordially,
>>  Alexander Rødseth
>>  Arch Linux Trusted User
>>  (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR)

Also, fcitx looks very CJK-specific to me, whereas ibus is a
multilingual input bus (think SCIM). So, not really directly
comparable. I'm all for finding someone to maintain the stuff, be it
in the repos or AUR.


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