Re: GNOME 3.0 Schedule draft; Streamlining of the Platform.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

For the accessibility portion, here's some strawman stuff that will be  
solidified soon (I hope):

1) Luke Yelavich at Canonical is planning on looking at speech  
dispatcher as a proposed replacement for gnome-speech.  If he gets  
support from his management to do the work and is successful at meeting  
the sundry of requirements being placed on a speech synthesis solution,  
we can deprecate/remove gnome-speech.  Note that speech dispatcher will  
likely end up as a cross platform project under the Linux Foundation  
Open A11y community.

2) We are working with another organization right now to investigate  
magnification solutions.  This may involve picking up on  
http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/a11y/tasks/magnification/, and I  
suspect the ultimate solution will be a combination of improvements to  
Compiz's eZoom plugin plus a D-Bus API.  If so, this may end up as a  
Compiz project.

3) In two weeks, Sun is hosting a meeting between Sun, Codethink, and  
Novell to develop a "go forward" plan to get the AT-SPI/D-Bus work to a  
point where the existing Bonobo/CORBA solution can be supplanted.  This  
includes figuring out what to do about applications that currently  
depend upon cspi.  Since it is cross platform, this may also end up as  
a project under the Linux Foundation's Open A11y group.

I'd also like to organize something at GUADEC around this since it is  
basically a rewrite of the entire accessibility infrastructure for  
GNOME.  In the end, we will have also created a solution that is  
compatible with KDE desktops and is also more amenable to mobile  
devices.

Keep an eye on http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/BonoboDeprecation  
for details.

Hope this ties you over until we can solidify things more,

Will

On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Ahoj,
>
> a draft for the GNOME 2.27 & 2.29 schedule is now available at
>
>         http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven .
>
> The schedule also includes a plan to clean up the platform by getting
> rid of deprecated modules.
> Maintainers can see the GNOME 3 readiness of their modules on  
> Frederic's
> awesome status page at http://www.gnome.org/~fpeters/299.html .
> Comments & discussion welcome.
>
> Notes:
>       * 2.30.0 is planned to be 3.0.0, if the QA agrees (For a general
>         GNOME 3 debate, please see other threads like Vincent's recent
>         posting at
>          
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/ 
> msg00004.html and  
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/ 
> msg00005.html ). I don't plan to cover everything+1 in this schedule,  
> it's just that I concentrated on platform streamlining.)
>       * Only two maintenance releases for 2.28.x
>       * Early module freeze for 2.30
>       * More & earlier 2.29.x releases than normally (better testing)
>       * Two weeks hardcode freeze before 2.30.0 - late release at the
>         last day of march 2010
>       * Still to discuss: dconf vs gconf. This is not yet covered by
>         this plan, but crucial to discuss (as gconf depends on Bonobo)  
> -
>         robtaylor and/or desrt will probably elaborate its current
>         state.
>       * Still to discuss: a11y plan for GNOME3 - see
>         http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/BonoboDeprecation
>
>
> Already know some 2.28 plans for the module you maintain?
> Add them to http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap now!
>
> andre
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