Bug#661106: RFH: scim -- smart common input method platform
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 16:30, Rolf Leggewie
<debian-bugs@rolf.leggewie.biz> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> I request assistance with maintaining the scim package.
>
> scim comprises software to input complex characters in non-latin languages
> such as Chinese Hanzi, Japanese Kanji or Korean Hangul and others. It
> enjoys widespread and growing use. scim is scheduled to be eventually
> obsoleted by ibus. scim still has five times the user base and that base
> in Debian is actually still growing faster than that of ibus. Developer
> interest in scim has mostly faded away both in Debian and upstream.
>
I agree there are some users still using SCIM, but it does not deserve such a
description.
IBus has the largest user base now, and it's probably more than five times of
SCIM. I am sure the user of SCIM is decreasing rapidly in recent years
because all other important Linux distros has switched to IBus as default for
several years. The reason of the loss of developer interest is more or less
about most users are using IBus now. If there are still many people still using
SCIM, there won't be so little people still concerning it.
> My goal as maintainer is to keep the package usable for the benefits of its
> users. That means making sure the package is free of RC bugs, adheres
> to policy and submitted patches are eventually integrated. It does not
> include original development and repeated calls for it in the past were
> simply misguided.
>
> My co-maintainer requested to step down and I thank him for his support in the
> past. Because of my limited time and skills I prefer to maintain most of my
> packages in a team of at least two and thus would call for an interested
> individual to step forward to fill the gap. Any area that you can help would
> be appreciated and I would also be willing to do some limited mentorship for
> someone getting their feet wet in packaging software. I understand packaging
> reasonably well but I'm not a good coder, somebody with complimentary skillset
> would be the perfect match.
>
We apperciate the hard work you and your co-maintainer has done, thank you! And
I wish SCIM have less bug since it's going to be shipped to next stable, Wheezy,
hopefully.
> The packaging work is published in http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/scim.git
>
> The package description is:
> Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is an input method (IM) platform. Input
> methods are needed to enter complex characters in many non-latin languages.
> SCIM provides a common platform for various plugin modules and independent IM
> programs, as well as a set of modules and programs on its own. It is highly
> modularized and exposes abstract interfaces, so that plugin modules with
> different functions can easily communicate with each other.
>
--
Regards,
Aron Xu
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