Meeting Summary

gobject-introspection and related issues

When 3.1.90 goes out, there will be two versions of pygobject: 2.28.6 will *not* use introspection. 2.90.x *will* use introspection. And the two versions can co-exist.
Related with this change, any application which attempts to import pyatspi cannot import gtk via static bindings.
This doesn't impact most applications, but it definitely impacts Orca and Accerciser because they need to import both pyatspi and gtk.
Joanie made it an agenda item just in case there are others impacted by this change whom she forgot about.
Joanie and Javi are actively working on their introspection ports now and plan to be done for 3.2.
The port to gobject-introspection is blocked by a few segfaults in pygobject from master.
John Palmieri and Mike are working on providing patches for these bugs.

This is now a possibility under consideration.
Juanjo has begun coordinating with the marketing team.
In response, Karen Sandler asked for end-oriented, specific goals for an accessibility FoG campaign.
Juanjo mentioned hackfests, CSUN and other conferences.
Joanie suggested that this opportunity should support development as well.
The creation of a brochure for fundraising was also suggested to us.

André Klapper asked for a11y achievements to be included in the 3.2 release notes.
ACTION: Team members should add items they'd like included in the GNOME release notes to our team's draft page.
ACTION: Juanjo will then draft a summary for the GNOME release notes.
ACTION: Joanie will help with proofreading, etc. of the release notes summary.

This has been suggested/requested as part of the creation of a marketing brochure.
ACTION: Team members who know about particular hardware types should get this information to Juanjo.
ACTION: Joanie will generate content about braille displays for Juanjo.

The idea of documenting shared parts of core a11y libs in one single place, for consistency, was discussed.
The consensus is that it's hard to think about it in a short term, because most a11y libs are not synced as they should ideally be.
Also, the libatspi documentation was updated with some of Aline's patches.

The CSUN call for proposals officially came out a few hours ago. Anyone wishing to present a paper at CSUN should start drafting.
Mike implemented org.a11y.Status.IsEnabled into the bus launcher. Currently it can be read but not written. Writing is still TODO.
Mike is Frederik's hero.

Team:
- Add items they'd like included in the GNOME release notes to our team's draft page.
- Provide information to Juanjo about assistive/alternative hardware types which GNOME supports.
Juanjo:
- Draft a summary of the release notes after the team has filled in the points they would like to see covered.
Joanie:
- Help Juanjo with the proofreading of the release notes.
- Provide Juanjo with information on refreshable braille displays.

Team:
- Comment on the mailing list thread with their thoughts on the Collection interface(s)
- Check how Mike's change improves desktop performance (i.e. with a11y on and no AT listening).
Ale:
- Look for the python-gobject testing-distro bug and talk with jhernandez to try to fix it and create a new spin.
Brian:
- Send a mail summarizing his proposal regarding a testing-centered design.
- Announce his Mago tests on the gnome-accessibility-devel list, and also create a README and INSTALL.
Javi:
- Spin a new (and possibly the last accessibility-specific) spin of the testing distro once he has the new tarball from Joanie and any other required changes requested by our team.
Joseph:
- Explore the JavaScript Atspi import further to see how much is available.
Juanjo:
- Investigate wxWidgets' internals and how it uses Gtk+
Mike:
- File a bug regarding GAIL treeview children / children-changed signals, attach a patch, and call for testers.
- Modify libatspi to fill in the index when possible (ie, when it has the child cached, which it will not for trees with MANAGES_DESCENDANTS for instance)
Piñeiro:
- Update the AtkObject:children-changed documentation, as this could be also used on ATK implementors