Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Cc:ing debian-gtk-gnome) > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007, Mario Lang wrote: >> Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I've imported and tagged the unstable version instead; you can commit >> > whatever changes you had on mentors on top of that. >> > >> > @Mario: do you want to continue sponsoring, I need to add you to >> > pkg-gnome as well so that you can tag uploads; do you want to? >> >> First of all, sorry for ignoring this issue for so long, but now, >> time permits me to do more work on GNOME accessibility stuff >> again, and now that I've looked and seen I already have an alioth >> account (mlang) that still works, I'd be interested in >> co-maintaining gnome-orca. Since I will be using orca on a daily >> basis, I think it would only make sense to have the ability >> to address problems directly, rather then having to go via >> the BTS. Could you add me to the alioth >> users group that is required for orca and give me a very quick >> primer on how to checkout and behave in the svn managed team >> appropriately? I am pretty new to the GNOME team per se. > > I've added you to pkg-gnome so that you can work on gnome-orca; > welcome!
Thanks a lot! I've just given this a spin, and was up and running pretty fast. > We should have more documentation on simple rules we follow in > pkg-gnome, but the working process is based on quite standard > svn-buildpackage usage, in mergeWithUpstream mode. Basically, "svn co" > to retrieve a working copy of the package dir at: > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-orca > "svn-buildpackage" to build it, "svn-buildpackage --svn-tag-only" to > tag the committed revision when you've done the final build. I also had to retrieve the orig tarball, but now that I've got the hang of this, it feels pretty simple. > If you want to prepare gnome-orca 2.19, you do not need to wait for the > API freeze as it doesn't export an API (AFAIK), Right, Orca is actually sort of an end-user app, only using many APIs but not exporting any (yet). > so you can start by "svn cp"ing desktop/unstable/gnome-orca right > now to desktop/experimental, but make sure you don't forget to > commit fixes to both branches. That sounds even better. Thanks again for the quick introduction. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
