On 25 May 2010 05:44, Ray Smith <theraysm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would be very happy for someone to take over maintenance of the autotools > part of tesseract. Even better if a team of you can do it... I don't get > much time to deal with that, and it doesn't get much priority, since we have > our own build system, and windows has to have its own. With someone looking > after the build side, I am hopeful that, after 3.00 becomes a tarball, I can > keep the svn trunk fully up-to-date with the source code and then maybe you > guys can decide when it is a good time to make a new tarball release. >
I'll take you up on that; I want shared libraries :) Maybe one month from now would be a good time to set for a release; it gives enough time to have organised testing. > I made a big hole in the issues list last week, and will attempt to work > through the rest this week, as there are useful patches in there that should > be applied, and useful bug reports for bugs that can be fixed. WIth the > issues list down to a more manageable size, it should be easier to keep up > with it. There is too much for me to manage on my own though, and it is > overwhelming to see that just about every wiki page has as many comments > attached as there are open issues > > I saved a lot of time by putting a filter on the forum, but that meant I > didn't look at it either, which is not satisfactory. I created the > tesseract-dev forum for developers specifically, but it didn't take off. It > would help to have a division between the more mundane parts of the forum > and the other items that require my specific attention. > I think all of the relevant threads have an issue filed, so you're not missing much. It might be a good time to revive the tesseract-dev list; the interest clearly exists. > So please, anyone who wants to help out maintain this site, rather than fork > it, let me know, and I will add you to the list of developers. We are still > actively developing the code at Google, and I want to be able to get the > code out where people can use it. > -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en.
