Re: [orca-list] Opportunity to Contribute to GNOME Accessibility: Orca Performance Improvements

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Tuesday 09 November 2010 08:11 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> That sounds like a pretty daunting task to dump on a single person.  
> I'm still trying to find my way around this ATK stuff and gnome so I'm 
> probably not qualified to apply for this contract position but I sure 
> wouldn't mind some training or something so I could get further along 
> and be able to contribute more in the future.
I am programming in Python and c for last 5 years.
So may be I can do this work.
I guess though, I will agree with steve that it's donting to have just 
one person do the entire work.

> I'm even wondering if those of us who have a serious intent on 
> contributing more code changes and analysis of Orca or the 
> applications feeding into it, could somehow pick this up more quickly 
> or find some good concise training, we could collectively add more to 
> this effort.
> again +1
> I recently found some additional documentation on how to use 
> Accerciser but then as I went through the tutorial I found it nearly 
> impossible to use the ipython console.  When I asked about this issue 
> on the list recently, I got no replies.  Does hardly anyone deal much 
> with Accerciser or does noone use the python console? It looked to me 
> like that part of Accerciser could be helpful like in other debuggers.
another issue I kept on raising along with other keen and potential 
contributers is a good scripting manual.
For experienced Python programmres like me, it would have been a pasport 
into our intentions of starting to contribute.

> Somehow, the general lack of documentation on Accerciser and other ATK 
> functions has been making my learning of this work quite a bit slower 
> than I had hoped.
Hmmm, same here steve.
Infact if there were good docs I would have been one of the people who 
would jump into contribution, with or without money.

> Some of the bugs I am willing to adopt because they interest me are 
> hard for me to get started on because I'm still learning how to 
> efficiently navigate around in the internals of Gnome, ATK and Orca.  
> It's slowly coming along but still...
Well, if not good manuals or docs, at least small but consise articles 
on these technologies could help a lot.
And then we have this mailing list.

This is not to sound complaining, I know as it is many of us contribute 
to this in our spare time.
But it is a matter of fact that documents could have helped and it is a 
practical problem.
Let's see what comes out of this.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.