What they said, in essence, was that they weren't interested in turning on
Speakup until it was out of staging . I was rather rudely encouraged to get
with upstream and make it happen.
--
Bill in Denver
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Hi, Bill.
>
> You probably told me, but what, if anything, was the so-called reasoning
> given to you for Fedora's attitude? I'd think that an outfit priding itself
> on being in the vanguard of free software development, as Fedora seems to,
> would at least be willing to consider being in the vanguard of accessibility.
>
> Al
>
> On 03/29/2013 10:24 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sadly, I must concur with all that has been said here, at least
>> the negative stuff. I couldn't get them to turn Speakup on in the Fedora
>> kernel, even though the modules are right there in staging. Happily,
>> there's an organization called RPM Fusion. They provide add on modules
>> for Fedora that the Fedora project won't include. They were happy to
>> build the Speakup modules for their staging package. I build Fedora 18
>> with the stuff from RPM Fusion and can make it available to anyone who
>> wants it. Installation would require a kickstart script, or the dreaded
>> sighted assistance. I know that this doesn't help with RHEL, but since
>> Fedora was mentioned, I thought I'd chime in.
>>
>> Hope this helps someone.
>>
>>
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