Meeting Summary

  • Meeting started by Joanie at 16:06 CET.
  • Meeting ended at 16:43 CET.
  • Participants (Lines Said):
    • Joanie - joanie (70)
    • Magdalen - magpie (67)
    • Juanjo - jjmarin (11)
  • Log

GSoC Update

  • Magdalen apologises about missing the last meeting as she was in GUADEC finishing off the gsettings patch.
  • Magdalen wants to thank the mentoring team for their help with the lightening talk at GUADEC. She felt she could have done it better on the day but it could certainly have been worse, and all things considered she feels that she let many people know that this project was important one way or another during the course of the conference. :-)

  • Magdalen spoke to Karen about replacing the out-of-date GNOME magnifier how-to on the BBC website after it is finished and Karen seemed to be very interested in helping get the change publicised.

  • In GUADEC it was possible to speak face to face with the developers of GNOME Shell and it was possible to gain an
    • understanding of what would be required for the patch. The following pieces of information were discovered:
    • The gjs exception experienced by Magdalen shown here was actually normal and was not related to the crashed experienced in GNOME Shell. Further investigation suggests that the GNOME Shell extentions developers work around the issue by adding the line: "module_autogenargs['gnome-shell']=' --enable-jhbuild-wrapper-script'" and then running gnome.

    • The following command must be used from now on: 'cd /home/dev/gnome/source/gnome-shell/; ./src/gnome-shell --replace'
  • Magdalen has put separate .jhbuildrc configuration files in github: One for each environment she has avalaible because they each seem to require slightly different tweaks in order to work well (e.g. WebKit can not be compiled in a reasonable time frame.

  • Magdalen has run the !focusCaretTracker changes successfully but has not finished all the tests due to (yet another) mac crash slowing things down. However gnome-shell is built now successfully on both computers!!!
  • The only problem at the moment is that the mac thinks it is monday janurary 1, 2001 and although it is possible to 'ping 8.8.8.8' the connection seems to be limited in some way on wired and wireless.
  • HELP: Does anyone know how to set the date via bash because Magdalen cannot rebuild gsettings and include the change while the git.mk is so many years in the future, it seems.
  • It is not urgent as Magdalen updated gsettings from desktop since they were pushed to master :-)

  • HELP: Magdalen asks if anyone can clarify whether monday is a hard or soft deadline?
  • LINK: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNine

  • Magdalen has Juanjo, Joanie, Piñeiro, and Ryan to thank for helping to get the commit pushed before the freeze.
  • Magdalen is aiming for magnifier and tracker commit to land on or before 19th August but is not sure if there's a contingency or not in case there are any problems over the weekend.
  • Magdalen has a lot to discuss with mentors after this commit gets out the way and some ideas for after the primary aims of the project are complete but that will have to wait till after the commit and this is just an fyi. :-)

Documentation

  • Kat asked Magdalen to rewrite our documentation.
  • Magdalen is happy to help with that but does not feel qualified to write the whole lot because of the breadth and depth of the technical and legal aspects of creating a fresh module for a11y developers and users.

Marketing

  • (No updates)

Miscellaneous Time

  • Traveling is hard, let's go sleeping.

Action Items

  • (No new action items)

Ongoing / Rolled-Over

  • Joanie:
    • Email Mark Sadecki about our team meetings and invite him to join us to provide W3C updates.
    • 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:
    • Ping mousetweaks maintainers in relation with their plans towards Wayland.
    • Send a email to accessibility-dev, just in case the Wayland Accessibility section needs to be filled.
    • Compose a "what accessibility needs from Wayland, how to use it" email, ask for review, send to the Wayland Developer's list.
    • Ping GNOME designers, so hopefully some default keybinding will be available for 3.8.
    • Create some usability-configurability related bugs, using Bryen's mail as a starting point.
    • Update the AtkObject:children-changed documentation, as this could be also used on ATK implementors.

Accessibility/Minutes/20130815 (last edited 2013-08-22 10:15:22 by JoanmarieDiggs)