[OLPC-GSoC] Weekly update : Integration of Speech Synthesis in Sugar Environment

[Hemant Goyal]

Hi all,

The last couple of days saw some heavy learning and application of UNIX File
System permissions and exploration of security issues with setuid. (This is
the moment when I realize that my project was supposed to be packaging and
reading/writing to a file :P).

Specifically:


   1. I released and discarded many version of the speech-dispatcher package
   specifically meant for OLPC laptop to remove all unneeded dependencies on
   pulse, nas, flite etc.
   2. I reviewed and approved another package in Fedora community. Quite a
   nice moment to approve another package when I was struggling to get my own
   speech-dispatcher package approved a month ago :).
   3. Continued fixing issues with python-dotconf package.
   4. Finally managed to make the speech-dispatcher daemon run as non-root.
   This means that we dont need to make sugar-control-panel non-root and can
   easily read/write to the configuration files of speech-dispatcher. After
   some extensive testing of the speech-dispatcher RPM, I will proceed to the
   designing of the sugar-control-panel UI for speech synthesis
   settings(finally :P).

I have not made an update on my User Page till now (will do so soon enough).

Anyways I'd just like to take a moment to thank Simon and Tomeu for all the
guidance and encouragement! Kudos to both of you ;)

Best,
Hemant
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