Re: Getting Gnome Accessibility in Garnome

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Bill Haneman">
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> > Up until now, the gok team has been reluctant to make any actual
> > 'releases' (though GOK itself is working reasonably well).  However in
> > recent conversations with Simon Bolter of the University of Toronto,
> > co-maintainer of GOK, it sounded as though they could be persuaded to
> > start making releases.
> >    
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> ObligatoryReleaseTeamComment: Making releases is a really good habit to get
> into, 'release early, release often', etc. :-) If you've got code out in
> wide use, you can prioritise your fixes more easily - 'real' feedback really
> helps.

Just a quick note to say that we agree with making frequent "releases" 
to the gnome community.  We wanted to wait on making a wider 
announcement until gok is really solid.  Oh, and that is "Simon Bates" 
you probably spoke with :-)

cheers,

David Bolter

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> > The same goes for the gnopernicus team; Draghi, Adi, are you guys ready to
> > start uploading tarballs (i.e. "make dist") to ftp.gnome.org?
> >    
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> Just a recommendation - it's worth making sure your module distchecks before
> you make a release. Sometimes painful, but worth it in the end.
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> > As for the rest of the accessibility stack, it should be ready for GARNOME
> > now as far as I know.  I would include the 'at-poke' module also, in the
> > developer platform tarballs (not desktop), (at-poke was largely written by
> > Michael M) since it's very useful as a testing and diagnostic tool for the
> > developer platform.
> >    
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> Cool, I'll add at-poke.
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> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff
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