[FriBidi] Unicode 10 support and maintenance takeover

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Thanks Behnam.  Yes, please redirect the fribidi.org domain.  I don't even
remember where that page is currently hosted!

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Behnam Esfahbod <behnam at zwnj.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
>
>> After long discussions with Behdad behind the scenes, he has asked me to
>>> take over the maintainer task of fribidi, which I have agreed to do. Let me
>>> first of all thank Behdad for bringing fribidi to what it is today! I
>>> started the fribidi project back in 1999 as a proof of concept and hoping
>>> it would help in proliferating BiDi support in free software. Soon Behdad
>>> took over the maintenance and with his perseverance over the years as a
>>> maintainer have helped fulfilling this goal way beyond what I had hoped
>>> for. Thanks again!
>>>
>>
> Glad to hear you're back and going to lead this work, Dov!
>
>
> Re API, I highly recommend that you DON'T break the API, and DON'T rename
>> the library.  Ie. your second option.
>>
>
> Same here. Would be great to keep it backwards-compatible to ease the
> transition, specially for the bindings.
>
>
> We can possibly gather Behnam's Python binding in that org as well.
>>
>
> These are two of the binding that I can move to the new org:
>
> * https://github.com/behnam/python-fribidi
> * https://github.com/behnam/pecl-fribidi (mirror from php.net)
>
>
> I'm writing a perf measuring and conformance testing tool for various bidi
> implementations (FriBidi, ICU, Rust/UNIC) which can also move to this repo
> when public.
>
>
> Also, another matter that we can finally address now is the project
> website. Right now there are many old docs and readme pages out there,
> linking to non-GitHub places as homepage and for bug tracking. If the plan
> is to move everything to GH, would be great to set up fribidi.github.io
> as the homepage, and redirect other pages, specially the fribidi.org
> domain to the GH page. I'll be happy to do help with parts that need access
> to the servers.
>
>
> Cheers,
> -Behnam
>
>
>
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