Meeting Summary

• Meeting started by Piñeiro at 16:08 CET.
• Meeting ended at 17:01 CET.
• Participants (Lines Said):
  • Piñeiro - API (103)
  • Joanie - joanie (71)
  • Juanjo - jjmarin (12)
  • Mike - mgorse(11)
  • Javi - jhernandez (8)

• Log

Caribou and Mousetrap

• Caribou:
  • Several weeks ago Daiki Ueno indicated interest in being the caribou maintainer.
  • This week we were talking with Eitan, and he sees that as a good idea and said that he will send a mail to Daiki soon.
  • On a related note, it seems that Daiki lives in Japan. This is something to take into account when pinging him.
  • ACTION: Piñeiro will be sure that Daiki gets notified about Caribou maintainership and provide hints if needed regarding releases.
• Mousetrap:
  • There is a new NSF-funded program called FOSS2SERVE.
  • This program is designed to get profs more comfortable with and actively teaching free software with a humanitarian focus in university CS courses.
  • The program is a collaboration between Western New England University (Heidi), Drexel University, and Nassau Community College.
  • As part of this, and as part of Joanie's idea to do an outreach program for professors, we are giving Mousetrap to them as a module.
  • The students are beginning work on making Mousetrap GNOME 3 compatible.
  • And Piñeiro and Joanie will be more or less mentoring the professors on being module maintainers -- and doing so according to GNOME practice.
  • If, for some reason, nothing becomes of this, we lose nothing.
  • And we stand to gain more contributors and getting Mousetrap back into shape and ultimately accepted as a proper module and AT.
  • We may or may not see students in #a11y. Currently they are going to use #mousetrap.

  • But if any students (or professors) show up asking questions about Mousetrap, this is why. And please help them.

Python 3 (Are we there yet?)

• Accerciser:
  • There were a few bugs regarding the new Python 3 Accerciser code.
  • Joanie reported bugs and provided patches.
  • All patches have been reviwed and merged into master.
  • So Accerciser 3.7.4 seems to be the definitive-and-working Python 3 release.
• Piñeiro tried to do a Python 3 build of the gnome stack by setting os.environ['PYTHON'] = 'python3.3' in his .jhbuildrc
• Some relevant modules are still not ported, specific example: gobject-introspection.
• Talking with Colin Walters, it seems that he doesn't plan to fix that soon, but that patches are welcome.

• Current Python 3 porting table: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/Python3Porting.

• Piñeiro mentioned this because he fears that 3.8 will be still a python mixed release, so it seems that as usual, we did our homework before a lot of people.
• The pyatspi example is not Python3-ready yet. Mike will remove it from the distribution for now.

GNOME 3.8 Update

• This week (w3) was a GNOME release week, specifically 3.7.4.
• ATK added new API, versioning tools so apps/libraries could get the ATK version being used.

W3C Update

• (None as Joseph was not present)

Marketing

• Juanjo is still working in a accessibility (Spanish) article for gnome hispano.
• ACTION: Juanjo will send the article for GNOME Hispano to Piñeiro for review.

Miscellaneous Time

• For the record, Joanie thinks Comcast sucks.

Action Items

• Piñeiro:
  • Be sure that Daiki gets notified about Caribou maintainership and provide hints if needed regarding releases.
• Juanjo:
  • Send the article for GNOME Hispano to Piñeiro for review.

Ongoing / Rolled-Over

• Joanie:
  • Do a full evaluation of the accessibility breakage in Evolution 3.6 and file bugs accordingly.
• Juanjo:
  • Take a look at the current a11y material in order to make an action plan.
• Piñeiro:
  • Create some usability-configurability related bugs, using Bryen's mail as a starting point.
  • Investigate that "Enable by Keyboard" thing.

  • Update the AtkObject:children-changed documentation, as this could be also used on ATK implementors.