On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 10:42:51 +0100
Thomas Kahle <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/01/2017 00:00, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:54:28 +0100
> > Thomas Kahle <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> >> I will retire  
> > 
> > Sorry to hear that. :(
> >   
> >> app-text/tesseract  
> > 
> > I maintain media-libs/leptonica, which is primarily in the tree because
> > of Tesseract. I don't use Tesseract myself though and it's not a
> > trivial package to maintain so I'd rather someone else picked it up.
> > Surely one of you does some OCR? This is the best free software OCR
> > project around.  
> 
> I started maintaining tesseract because I use
> 
> app-text/pdfsandwich
> 
> Maybe takers also want to look at this.  It's very little work (but it
> depends on ocaml).

Just want to add that if it sounds like I'm being lazy, I don't
actually use Leptonica either! I only maintain it because I've
developed a close relation with upstream over the years that stemmed
from trying to get (the now defunct) Audiveris to work.

> >> www-apps/tt-rss  
> > 
> > I'll take this one. I use it every day.  
> 
> Very good.  Note that this has a rolling release model upstream.
> The master branch is considered stable.  I used to make a tarball
> from this every 3 or 4 months and host them on my devspace.
> Please also change the SRC_URI for the current ebuilds, as my
> devspace will go offline eventually.

Yeah, I did notice that. Upstream does still make the odd tag even
since he announced it's now rolling but I guess I shouldn't wait for
those to appear. No need to host it on devspace though.

https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/fox/tt-rss/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=832aa24943f6b65a811dc6c7414dede412ab1ec6

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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