Re: Debian specific accessibility issues

[Luke Yelavich <linuxaccess themuso com>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:26:41AM EST, Jason White wrote:
> Perhaps someone involved with accessibility should be given cvs write
> access and authority to review and commit accessibility-related changes.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think members of the Sun 
accessibility team do have write access to CVS.

> Failing this, would there be a straightforward way of generating patches
> that just contain the accessibility-related changes, which distributors
> could be encouraged to apply? The ideal would be to use a revision control
> system that tracks Gnome cvs, contains the accessibility-relevant fixes
> and can generate patches without manual intervention. Another project I am
> familiar with, namely the xfs file system for Linux, effectively did this
> for quite a long time by maintaining a kernel tree in cvs and regularly
> generating patches that were uploaded to an ftp server. The problem was
> that some manual effort was needed to create the patch sets, and of course
> we want developers to concentrate on getting work done rather than
> having to compensate for delays in the process attributable to project
> organization.

While I don't work on Ubuntu accessibility directly, I would be happy to 
apply patches to the derivatives that I release, if it means improving 
accessibility.

Luke