Hello everybody: I have gone through the messages that people have posted to the list identifying the various bugs, changes and features that speakup has or doesn't. I haven't included the suggestions that William received from the staging mailing list because those are more in the way of specifically identified items needing resolution before speakup's inclusion in the main line kernel code. Although they need to be addressed they don't necessarily have to do with speakups future direction for development. I include the list below and would appreciate it if folks would think about topics or items I may have overlooked. If you would like to volunteer to be involved with any of them specifically you can let us know and I'll put you on that items list of interested parties. Once everyone has some time to look the list over and make additions or suggestions I will schedule a time to have a conference call and a time to discuss these items on the irc channel. You can of course drop by the #speakup channel just about any time to engage us in chat about them. They are in no particular order other than as I came across them in peoples messages. Outstanding speakup issues Cut-and-paste hanging some systems when pasting. Typically happens when pasting into an unbuffered situation such as cat >filename. Softsynth device scrambles output occasionally on smp systems. Serial devices are not being registered correctly. Speakup direction issues What to do about internal synths, ISA and PCI? Shall serial synth support stay in the kernel or get moved to user space? Can serial support be moved to userspace without losing functionality such as early boot and kernel messages? What can be done to move speakup into initramfs? What can be done about a personalized pronunciation dictionary? Should speakup stay in kernel space or be rewritten to user space? Adjunct: where does the standard console live? Speakup needs screen scrollback support? Speakup needs early kernel message support? Speakup web pages need to be updated and fixed. Speakup's install script is broken? What is the upfi specification? Could it be used to provide earlier speech output? What about a feature to set configuration options based on the running program. -- Well that's it then, colour me gone!
