Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

[Ben Konrath <ben konrath utoronto ca>]

Hi Vincent,

I can't speak for other accessibility projects but I can give you a
summary from the On-screen Keyboard point of view. The On-screen
Keyboard effort currently consists of two projects: GOK [1] and Caribou [2].

For GOK, we are working on removing dependencies on deprecated libraries
for the March 2010 release of GNOME. We are not, however, planning to
move GOK over to the new DBus based atspi so GOK will only work if
distros decide to ship the CORBA based atspi - I believe Will Walker is
working on allowing both versions to be installed at the same time. I
will let Will talk about this in more detail.

Caribou is currently being developed as an alternative to GOK for GNOME
3. We are targeting the September 2010 release of GNOME for our first
release.

Cheers, Ben

[1] http://www.gok.ca
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Caribou

On 11/03/2009 11:14 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The release team is gathering comments from various teams to get a
> proper idea of which of March or September 2010 is more appropriate for
> the release of GNOME 3.0. The decision for the release date is following
> what we set in the 3.0 planning document [1]: we want 3.0 to be out in
> 2010, but we also want to make sure that 3.0 is rock-solid; your input
> will help us take an informed decision.
> 
> It'd be great if someone could summarize the status of the work that is
> being done in your team (especially for the new at-spi, and also the new
> on-screen keyboard and magnifier), and how March or September would work
> for you. (Willie: feel free to just quickly say what you told me during
> the Summit -- that was really great input)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vincent
> 
> PS: make sure to cc the release team for the reply ;-)
> 
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Plan
>