Re: GNOME 2.22 API Freeze Break Request for AT-SPI



Hi All:

Thanks very much. The Collections API implementation has been a long arduous task, but it's great to see it finally actually being put to use in a beneficial way. Many thanks to Ariel and Scott for persevering here, and many thanks to the release team for their consideration and understanding. We definitely cannot forget Li as well -- he just plain rocks with the AT-SPI maintainership.

Will

Elijah Newren wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Willie Walker<William Walker sun com>  wrote:
Hi All:

   From http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes, I'm not aware if
  the AT-SPI stuff falls under "platform libraries," but I'm assuming it
  does.  Even if it doesn't, I still think it's good form for us to
  formally request a freeze break.

  In bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496232 we have been
  tracking work needed to enhance the AT-SPI Collections API to make it
  more useful by assistive technologies.  These changes have been used by
  the Orca project as tracked in bug
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491837.  These changes
  represent an API change, and we'd like to request a freeze break for
  GNOME 2.22 to apply the patch at
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=105774.

  The reasoning for the freeze break is outlined in comment #21 of the
  bug: "The reason is that we're pretty sure Orca is currently the only
  consumer of the Collections API right now.  If we were to not change
  the API now, we risk the chance that someone else will start using the
  API and we will end up with a situation where the changes may have an
  adverse effect on them.  By making the changes now, we can be sure that
  new users of the API will not run into this."

  Li Yuan is the module maintainer and is amenable to this as indicate by
  comment #24.  Also CC'd on this bug are Ariel Rios, the implementor of
  the Collections API, and Scott Haeger, who has been using the
  Collections API in Orca.  All are in support of the break request.

  Please let us know your thoughts,

Approval 2 of 2 since it looks like you've dotted your i's and crossed
your t's...but this is really scary doing this so late.



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