From: "Christian Hofstaedtler" ch@grml.org To: grml@ml.grml.org
We don't think nobody uses this. On the other hand we clearly see that none of the developers has personal use for accessibility, and we do not receive contributions (development and QA) from this user group.
I agree with what M.W. said that its been working so well there has been no reason to comment on it. I've been on this list for years and other than to ask some questions about re-mastering, I haven't commented at all.
But I'm guessing that the fact that the speakup code is now in the vanilla kernel source changes things, right? You don't have to pull it from git any more. All you have to do is check the boxes for the speakup modules when compiling your kernel. It'll take up some space but given the importance of these modules to some people, I'd think you'd want to do that.
Christian, are you in a position to make a policy decision on this issue? I think you should consider including brltty, espeak, and espeakup on the disk for reasons I talked about at length in another message. But my opinion is that including the speakup modules should be a sure thing. I'd be very disappointed if you decide against that at least.