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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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.