Re: ITP: gnome-orca -- Scriptable screen reader
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> writes:
> (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!
Thanks a lot! I've just given this a spin, and was up and
running pretty fast.
> 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.
I also had to retrieve the orig tarball, but now that I've got the
hang of this, it feels pretty simple.
> 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),
Right, Orca is actually sort of an end-user app, only using
many APIs but not exporting any (yet).
> 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.
That sounds even better. Thanks again for the quick introduction.
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