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

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,
I guess some times it so happens that more work is needed at the 
foundation and it is never directly evident.
So Some people might be getting that impressing of commits being quite.
I am leading one FOSS project and involved directly into a few others.
So I can understand your situation.
Infact I can see that since the commits are quite there must be some 
thing really fundamental going on right now.
I have been through such scilent commit phases so that could be the case 
with Orca developers as well.
All I can say and still argue about is that if API is documented 
properly, then people like us can off load a lot of work from hard 
working hackers like you.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:47 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
>    
> > Yeah, it's been awful quiet around here.  Other than some foreign
> > translations here and there, the commit log has been rather quiet
> > lately too.  Other than a couple bug fixes.
> >      
> Well, that's for several reasons:
>
> 1. The profiles and backend work being wrapped up in a separate branch
> is being tested.
>
> 2. Ale and I had Boston Summit followed by "Nashua Summit" (I live in
> Nashua). At the "Nashua Summit" Ale and I spent three days face-to-face
> going over all of the current code and planning an architectural
> refactor which will ultimately result in Orca's code being more
> approachable and Orca itself more extensible (e.g. through plugins). Ale
> has just now returned to Spain and I am just now back and able to just
> work on Orca. Summits and hackfests are awesome, but they do mean that
> day-to-day coding goes on hold.
>
> 3. I need to update our documentation and have been working on that.
>
> 4. I've been testing WebKitGtk+Orca. Still a work in progress, but the
> goal is to have minimal changes in Orca. So the bulk of the WebKitGtk
> work is something you will never see as a commit.
>
> So please do not interpret lack of tons of commits to master to mean
> that we're not working hard on Orca. I would argue that we're working
> harder than ever, with the end result being far better and far greater
> than you'd get from a bunch of small commits.
>
> For what it's worth....
> --joanie
>
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