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

[Thomas de Lima <thomas delima f123 org>]

Krishnakant and others,

KK, have you applied to the task? I believe the deadline was November 12.
Is anyone currently working on it?

Thankfully,
Thomas de Lima

On 17 November 2010 10:08, hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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