Re: [orca-list] Been Really Quiet Lately

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

You're right.  Not a whole lot of work has been done on the Orca  
codebase itself because there is a lot changing around Orca.  The Orca  
team has been busy addressing issues and helping out in spaces that are  
having a direct impact on GNOME accessibility.  As such, the Orca team  
has been busy helping with the port of AT-SPI from CORBA to D-Bus,  
WebKit, issues with the new login screen, problems with GNOME Shell,  
etc.  I've also been trying to work on ways to improve the  
out-of-the-box experience for a11y users.

One thing I am ramping up on is exposing GNOME and GNOME a11y to  
educational institutions, with the idea that exposing the next  
generation of developers to a11y issues will help increase the amount  
of a11y considerations being made by mainstream developers.  If we can  
accomplish that, we can help reduce the size and number of rocks us  
a11y folks need to push up hill every day.

I also took all of last week off to spend some time to teach myself  
some stuff.

In one sense, it's nice to know we are missed. :-)  In another sense,  
it shows that we need more help.  Because of their importance as well  
as their direct impact on Orca, our focus on a11y issues outside Orca  
is likely to continue through this release cycle.  So, if there are  
issues that Orca users need addressed, we're going to need help  
addressing them.  The ONCE organization in Spain will be helping us  
some (yeah!).  Additional capable contributors to this free open source  
project are always welcome.

Will

On Nov 29, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> Yes, it's been rather quiet around the list lately and that enables me
> to keep up with my e-mails lately.  But I also have noticed that git
> hasn't changed in nearly a couple weeks.  Is everybody on holiday til
> the end of the year or has there ben a change with the gnome
> repository again?
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> Curious minds want to know.
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