[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Issues with Indian tables hopefully resolved
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Christian Egli" <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:44:35 +0200
Hi Christian,
Thanks for talking to Sreeja and Dipendra. This sounds very reasonable to me.
Bert
Christian Egli writes:
> Hi Mesar, Hi Bert
>
> I just had a good discussion with Sreeja and Dipendra Manocha over
> skype. We discussed the two issues that we (the liblouis maintainers)
> currently have with these tables.
>
> The first one is the conflict with existing tables from Samuel for which
> there is no replacement in the new tables, namely the table for Santali
> and the one for Old Newari. Dipendra told me that Santali is not very
> active and Old Newari is not relevant, so it is safe to just remove
> these two tables.
>
> The second issue is that we currently do not have any words for
> automated testing as we would like to have. However from talking to
> Dipendra I got the impression that they are very serious, there is a
> large organization (the Indian Braille Council) behind this effort and
> they are doing some rigorous testing. At the moment it appears that this
> testing is mostly manual (test with NDVA and a Braille display) and they
> seem to be ramping up this manual testing and will be throwing more
> testers at it. They are also interested in automated testing and hope to
> collect a corpus of word and corresponding Braille pairs in the course
> of their manual testing. Obviously it would help to do the manual
> testing if the tables were included in the official release.
>
> Dipendra also alluded to the fact that Bookshare really wants these
> tables for their production. They are certainly better than the current
> tables from Samuel. So I think we do our users a favour by including
> them. Widespread adoption and usage will help to improve the quality.
>
> So all in all I'd say we should go ahead and include the Indian tables
> in the September release. This will help the manual testing and I am
> quite confident that they will provide the words and the corresponding
> Braille for automated tests.
>
> So basically I'd like to get you guy's consent to merge the tables. I'm
> out of the office tomorrow but if you agree I can probably do it on Monday.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Other related posts:
