Sgrìobh Dennis Roczek na leanas 25/04/2016 aig 15:33:
If the maintainers are not responsive (or if the dictionary is
abandoned), we actually cannot do anything as long as we have no new
maintainer for a fork. If there is somebody willing to overtake the
development, then forking of that particular dictionary is indeed a
possibility.
A couple of extra thoughts from an active maintainer of a dictionary and
the associated extensions.
In general, I'm interested in anything that brings together scattered
resources and makes stuff more user friendly, be that end users or devs
using it.
- there would have to be some sort of a locale-specific admin system for
active maintainers joining. Crowdsourcing stuff works in big languages
but if folk start submitting random stuff to a locale like Scottish
Gaelic or playing with the affix file, that's a recipe for disaster.
- there are different ways in which people maintain their dictionaries.
Some edit the text file directly, others build from corpora, in our
case, we use scripts to build from a dictionary database, which
automatically generates the .zip/.oxt/.xpi files. One would probably
have to consider different entry points if ones were to successfully
attract people from different projects because I would NOT want to have
to start manually maintaining our file.
- one thing that hasn't been mooted yet would be making some provision
for easily creating new dictionaries for new locales, something that has
a loc-tech threshold.
Michael
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