Orca now has two 'unstable' branches

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org>]

Hey all.

Due the current state of accessibility in GNOME 3.x, the Orca team had a
tough decision to make:

* Insist that Orca users must use GNOME 3.x to get the latest Orca 
  fixes and features, but have a less accessible GNOME experience.

or

* Try to maintain two 'unstable' branches, which is a pain for the
  Orca and i18n teams, but makes it possible for the users to still
  have the latest Orca fixes and features while some of these GNOME
  a11y issues get worked out.

The Orca team does its work for the users. So.... Are we thrilled at the
prospect of having two unstable branches? Gosh no. Is that what we wound
up deciding to do, so that we do the right thing by our users? Yeah. It
is.

As a result the branches are: master and orca-xdesktop.

The plan is this: Any string changes, UI changes, new docs, etc. will go
into both branches, so that aspect should remain in sync. What will not
be in sync are more under-the-hood, non-translatable things (e.g. gconf
versus gsettings, gtk2 versus gtk3, and so on). Given that the strings
will remain the same, I am hoping that this will not suck too badly for
us. (We'll find out, eh? ;-) )

I also plan to do the releases at the same time, mainly for my own
sanity. But also because the act of writing up the translation-updates
sections should help me stay on top of any updates that went into master
but did not make it into orca-xdesktop. And we'll probably have to cross
that bridge when we get to it. But what I was thinking is that if the
strings are identical, hopefully I can apply your commits made in Orca
master to orca-xdesktop as-is/unchanged. And if that fails, I'll stop by
#i18n and/or ping the team in question. This won't be fun, but I think
if we work together on this, we can pull it off.

Lastly, I stopped by #i18n and explained this turn of events. Claude
updated Damned Lies: http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca/ (Thanks again!!)
So that's what the strange, new branch is. ;-) And for anyone who can
work this new branch into their routine without much hassle, it will be
very much appreciated.

On behalf of the Orca team and its users, thanks again for all the work
you do!

Take care.
--joanie