Re: [orca-list] Task for budding Orca script writer: Update/refresh the ubiquity installer orca script.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42:49AM EST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Luke.
>
> > Since scripts for apps have had a refactor recently,
>
> Yeah, sorry about that. The new world order is better though. Really.
> And it's not all *that* different. :-) But I totally understand about
> the time crunch.

No need to be sorry, refactoring is often needed with coding.

> Anyhoo, about the following proposal:
>
> > Finally, I think it would be great to get this into orca proper, so I
> > don't have as much work carrying it from Ubuntu release to release.
>
> My one question is: If it gets included into Orca proper, can we count
> on you -- or someone from Canonical continuing to maintain it, either as
> the primary maintainers or as fall-back maintainers?

Fair question, in which case it doesn't matter where it is maintained, whether in the Ubutnu package or orca 
proper, so probably the Ubuntu package would still be the best place, since it is Ubuntu specific. As to 
keeping it maintained, it all depends on users telling me it is broken. Had things not changed, the script 
would have been shipped regardless of whether it worked or not, because I was unaware that it was broken (re 
your second email about this subject).

> While Ubuntu is awesome, it's not my personal distro. If I were to
> include it in Orca proper, users will then have an expectation that the
> script will be maintained upstream for the foreseeable future. And
> they'd be reasonable in having that expectation, but I'm afraid I don't
> have any more time than you do. If I don't have a guarantee of long-term
> maintainers I can count on to maintain this script, my leaning would be
> to have it remain downstream -- but be better about announcing and
> documenting changes we make within Orca that might impact downstream
> scripts.

As above, I'm happy to do this, however I'd like to ask the community that they please keep testing to make 
sure this script works. I cannot be looking everywhere for everything to see if everything still works. I 
don't work full time on accessibility as it is.

Luke