Re: [Maintainers] To make scim back to default IM or not, for 2010 Spring

Let's do this migration now.

1. kill all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* in
contrib. None of them are actively maintained now, and we never
promoted them in the past.
2. move all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* to
contrib. Those packages will be dropped one year later due to life
cycle of Mandriva Linux.
3. move all ibus* packages into main.
4. I'll do nessesary changes in svn repository, rpmsrate and drakx.

2010/7/20 Funda Wang <[email protected]>:
> Almost all other distros are using ibus as default input method
> platform now. I would suggests that we do following changes for cooker
> now:
> 1. kill all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* in
> contrib. None of them are actively maintained now, and we never
> promoted them in the past.
> 2. move all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* to
> contrib. Those packages will be dropped one year later due to life
> cycle of Mandriva Linux.
> 3. drop all source packages named ibus-table-* from contrib. Their
> package layouts changed a lot, and I'll do the migration in svn later.
> 4. move all binary and source rpms named ibus* (including those
> ibus-table-* binaries) from contrib to main.
> 5. do needed changes in rpmsrate and drakx.
>
> 2010/7/19 You-Cheng Hsieh <[email protected]>:
>> 2010/7/19 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:11:47PM +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
>>>> 2010/6/18 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
>>>> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:48:06PM +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
>>>> >> 2010/6/18 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
>>>> >> > You-Cheng sent an email about similar issues 10 days ago, but suggesting
>>>> >> > to switching to ibus. I'd feel more comfortable about a switch if all
>>>> >> > parties involved agreed on which IME to use :)
>>>> >> ibus currently sits in contrib, and selecting it changes too much for
>>>> >> both media and ISOs.
>>>> >
>>>> > This doesn't tell me if ibus is better or worse than scim. If we do the
>>>> > change for 2011.0, the ibus issue you mention aren't issue, they are
>>>> > easy to solve.
>>>> Sure. ibus is actively maintained upstream, and scim seems dead for
>>>> about two years. And fedora and ubuntu defaults to ibus now.
>>>
>>> If something is to be done for input methods for Chinese (ie switch to
>>> scim or ibus), now would be a good time to at least tell us which one is
>>> the best so that we can decide how to make the transition :)
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>>
>> Hello,
>> Thanks for notifying this matter. I would recommend migrating to ibus,
>> personaly. The specific modules required by traditional Chinese users
>> should be ibus-chewing and ibus-table-chinese, while chewing is
>> prefered as default for traditional Chinese.
>>
>> For local Linux community in Taiwan, gcin is more widely used than any
>> other input mothod platforms. However, I suppose that distribution
>> developers need a more well developed platform for multi-lingual
>> support. In this case, since scim seems less actively developed for a
>> while, I think ibus should be a more suiable option.
>>
>> Perhaps this should also be discussed in cooker-i18n list?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> You-Cheng Hsieh
>>
>> ps. this message also sends to Shiva Huang, the Mandriva translation
>> coordinator of zh_TW, and Frank Weng, the KDE zh_TW translation
>> coordinator who is also a Mandriva user.
>>
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