Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2010-01-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Sure. Looks like a good candidate to start a new project with ? > Especially since it contains more than 8 decades of data which can stand of > value even if just archived and maintained. > > Probably we just host it on alioth and let interested part

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-17 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > But if there are many people with interest in it to maintain, I think we could > set up a team and work together. Lets do it. I'm in. (however, with having huge number of packages holding in my arm, I'll be occasional uploader (until you

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi Pablo, On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 13:49:18 Pablo Duboue wrote: > > RS> Probably we just host it on alioth and let interested parties > contribute to RS> and use it. > > RS> Any suggestions on a different name ? Or should we just use the old one > ? > > What about GCIDE2? And what about mergi

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-16 Thread Pablo Duboue
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 CA> You don't. You will be effectively maintaining a fork. You might consider CA> changing the name. RS> Sure. Looks like a good candidate to start a new project with ? RS> Especially since it contains more than 8 decades of data which can stand

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Clint, On Tuesday 15 Dec 2009 23:43:45 Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:24:48PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not > > very sure who the current upstream is and if this database is still > > actively mainta

Re: ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:24:48PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not very > sure > who the current upstream is and if this database is still actively maintained. It is not. Upstream abandoned GCIDE on the grounds that WordNet

ITA: dict-gcide

2009-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I have ITAed the package dict-gcide because I use it. I don't have much idea about lexical databases (that being one of the reason adopting it), so hope to gather some help here. The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not very sure who the current upstream is and