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

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

Thomas,
Actually I was out on some trainning mission for a few days and was not 
reading Orca or any mailing list for that matter.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 06:59 PM, Thomas de Lima wrote:
> 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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