Re: Dasher

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

Thanks Janina. Excellent point. And it is at the edges where innovation 
often happens.

For the record, my concern about knowing the number of GOK users is that 
if there are resource decisions to be made that might impact them, it 
would be good to know the potential damage. It worries me that I don't 
have enough resources to give GOK the attention it deserves.

That said I'm looking to mentor someone for a (co)maintainer role...

cheers,
David

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Let's please not judge the value of Dasher, or any a11y package by
> number of users. This is a seriously slippery slope. By this reckoning
> a11y may as well go back into the closet. By definition, a11y is about
> edge cases, minimal user numbers, etc., etc. Else there would be no need
> for exception casing, because all applications would be tailored at
> screen readers, or at nonmouse input.
>
> A11y needs to be in the default package mix because it meets policy
> objectives, not because it is used by a majority of users. At the moment
> that includes Orca, Gok, and Dasher plus their dependencies.
>
> Janina
>
> Samuel Thibault writes:
>   
> > Steve Lee, le Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:57:04 +0000, a écrit :
> >     
> > > On 19/03/2008, Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com> wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Is Dasher a useful tool that is still needed as part of a distro's
> > > >  default install?
> > > >         
> > > Is there any way we can get an idea of numbers of users?
> > >       
> > In Debian's popcon.debian.org, among 64688 votes, dasher was
> > voted 363 times.
> >
> > Samuel
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