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

[Christian Hofstader <cdh gnu org>]

Cool enough. We should probably gather a list of people who want to work on this and start handing out tasks.
On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:51 AM, hackingKK wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:29 PM, Christian Hofstader wrote:
> > One pretty good way a bunch of us can learn a lot about how things work would be to actually start writing 
> > the documentation that is currently lacking or non-existent. We can send questions to the programmers 
> > working on this stuff and they can answer  when convenient and, meanwhile, we can probably figure out a 
> > lot of it with trial and error and having our docs reviewed by the experts.
> >
> > This sort of project would solve two problems: it would help those of us who want to jump in to learn the 
> > lay of the land and it will help others in the future (assuming we keep the docs up to date) join the 
> > project without going through a lot of superfluous rediscovery that we will need to do to make these 
> > documentation and tutorial projects.
> >
> > What do you folks think?
> >   
>
> Absolutely.
> Infact I can start creating a template for this.
> I am good at wiki format.
> Another thing is that Pydoc could be used to extract api comments.
> But still we will need the hackers themselves to put in some time for this.
> Its a Hugely proffitable time investment.
> This will also help the current programmers because if people can learn faster then the offloading of work 
> will happen faster.
>
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.