Re: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca

["ashley" <ash cox talktalk net>]

Hi Will:

I think this is a great idea. Is there any chance you could provide a .deb 
package of the release of orca with the changes? I'm not a programer (yet) 
but i'm happy to test.



thanks very much.

ashley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca


> Hi All:
>
> We're making some needed structural changes to the Orca code base that
> will have an impact on the speech generators, the braille generators,
> and the where am I code.
>
> Ideally, this will not have an immediate impact on you as a user. That
> is, Orca should continue to provide you with the same presentation of
> information that you were getting before these changes.  These changes,
> however, enable users to change the contents and ordering of what Orca
> presents, and also allows users to specify different voices to be used
> for different content with very fine granularity.  This also opens the
> door for adding audio cues down the road.  We plan on using this to
> improve the performance of Orca as well.
>
> So...what does this mean to you?
>
> 1) These changes are for the current development release.  They will not
> be backported to any stable releases.  So, that means you will only see
> them on the master branch and they will only go into GNOME 2.27.x
> releases and beyond.  They will not be put into GNOME 2.26.x releases or
> earlier.
>
> 2) We're still very early in the GNOME 2.27/2.28 release cycle, so this
> is the appropriate time for us to make these kinds of changes.  As we
> make these changes, we do lots of testing.  These are substantial
> changes, however, so breakages may have accidentally snuck in.  My
> apologies in advance for those issues.  With your patient testing and
> constructive feedback, we will identify and fix the problems before the
> GNOME 2.28 release this fall.
>
> 3) The first phase (the speech generator refactor) was checked in to the
> master branch less than an hour ago.  This means that those of you
> pulling from git will see the changes the next time you pull.  If you
> are someone who pulls from git and uses the master branch, please help
> us by testing with the latest code and providing your constructive
> feedback. Ideally, you should notice NO DIFFERENCES.
>
> 4) We're not ready to write docs or teach you how to modify the
> formatting yet.  When we're done with all the phases, we hope to write
> something up for you to use.  Please don't ask us how to customize your
> environment until we are done with all the phases.
>
> For the Orca team,
>
> Will
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