RFC: GStreamer eSpeak plugin, getting old

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:48:27AM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> 
> Le jeu. 7 juin 2018 23:57, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> a écrit :
> 
>     On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:35:30AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
>     > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 06:17:36PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
>     > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 06:18:26PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
>     > > Le vendredi 08 juin 2018 à 08:02 +1000, James Cameron a écrit :
>     > > > G'day,
>     > > >
>     > > > I'm looking for general help from plugin experts.
>     > > >
>     > > > The Sugar learning environment for children uses the GStreamer eSpeak
>     > > > plugin, through PyGObject and command line;
>     > > >
>     > > >     gst-launch-1.0 espeak text="hello world" ! autoaudiosink
>     > > >
>     > > > The plugin works, but is really old code, has compilation warnings,
>     > > > run-time warnings, and perhaps a few problems yet to be discovered.
>     > > > The warnings are easy to reproduce.
>     > > >
>     > > > Source repository is
>     > > >
>     > > >     [2]https://github.com/sugarlabs/gst-plugins-espeak
>     > >
>     > > Also, most of the code is missing a copyright assignment to make the
>     > > license valid. Any idea ?
>     >
>     > You're right.  I've noted that.  I'll contact the AUTHORS.
> 
>     The author Aleksey Lim has accepted my patch to add copyright
>     assignment.  Thanks for noticing that.
> 
> Great, now that this is fixed, what would you like next, just some help on
> maintenance, or would you like this to move into -bad repository?

Anything, really.  We just don't have the experts any more on the
Sugar project.  The compilation warnings and run-time warnings are
probably the lowest hanging fruit.  I offer to review and test, though
I don't have enough knowledge to review fully.

>     > > > On Fedora the package is gstreamer-plugins-espeak.
>     > > >
>     > > > On Debian and Ubuntu the package is gstreamer1.0-espeak.
>     > >
>     > > Quick question, why is this spawning a separate process ?
>     >
>     > I don't know, sorry.
>     >
>     > > >
>     > > > Thanks for reading!
>     > > >
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> References:
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> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/gst-plugins-espeak
> [3] mailto:gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
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