festival [was Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 19]

[Matthias Clasen]

----- Original Message -----
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:04:36 -0500,
>    Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 07:38:30AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >> >Anyone else want to work with me on this, or at least help keep
> >> >it limping
> >> >along until the next release and maybe make updating it a feature
> >> >for F20?
> >> I can provide a little help.
> >
> >Like, volunteering to be the main package owner at least throuhg
> >F19? :)
> 
> As long as we aren't planning to do a major version update before F19
> releases. I can handle minor changes. There are only 4 bugs filed,
> and
> based on the summaries, they don't look too bad. It seems to be
> working
> in rawhide right now.

festival is used as the speech backend by orca, so I have some interest in it for GNOME accessibility. In my recent testing of accessibility, it has been working fine. I'm willing to help festival limp along, too.