Re: ITP: gnome-orca -- Scriptable screen reader
(Cc:ing debian-gtk-gnome)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007, Mario Lang wrote:
> Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> writes:
> > I've imported and tagged the unstable version instead; you can commit
> > whatever changes you had on mentors on top of that.
> >
> > @Mario: do you want to continue sponsoring, I need to add you to
> > pkg-gnome as well so that you can tag uploads; do you want to?
>
> First of all, sorry for ignoring this issue for so long, but now,
> time permits me to do more work on GNOME accessibility stuff
> again, and now that I've looked and seen I already have an alioth
> account (mlang) that still works, I'd be interested in
> co-maintaining gnome-orca. Since I will be using orca on a daily
> basis, I think it would only make sense to have the ability
> to address problems directly, rather then having to go via
> the BTS. Could you add me to the alioth
> users group that is required for orca and give me a very quick
> primer on how to checkout and behave in the svn managed team
> appropriately? I am pretty new to the GNOME team per se.
I've added you to pkg-gnome so that you can work on gnome-orca;
welcome!
We should have more documentation on simple rules we follow in
pkg-gnome, but the working process is based on quite standard
svn-buildpackage usage, in mergeWithUpstream mode. Basically, "svn co"
to retrieve a working copy of the package dir at:
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-orca
"svn-buildpackage" to build it, "svn-buildpackage --svn-tag-only" to
tag the committed revision when you've done the final build.
Subscribe to the pkg-gnome-maintainers@ list on alioth if you want to
get all PTS for all packages, and to -commits for the commits.
There are a lot of people on #gnome-debian on GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org) to
help with uncommon tasks or to answer questions (me included).
If you want to prepare gnome-orca 2.19, you do not need to wait for the
API freeze as it doesn't export an API (AFAIK), so you can start by "svn
cp"ing desktop/unstable/gnome-orca right now to desktop/experimental,
but make sure you don't forget to commit fixes to both branches. When
the time comes, you will "svn mv" the experimental branch to unstable.
You can use the "check-dist" makefile to avoid erroneous uploads to
unstable of the experimental branch.
Good luck,
--
Loïc Minier
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