Re: gnome-orca version policy?

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud@hypra.fr>]

Le 03/09/2017 à 20:12, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Hello,

Hello Samuel

> MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on dim. 03 sept. 2017 01:37:09 +0200, wrote:
> > Either we focus on GNOME releases, so we will release Orca 3.24 (done),
> > 3.26, etc. To be sure to stay relevant with the GNOME and GTK stack.
> >
> > Or, solution I prefer, we let Orca with its own policy, given the
> > importance of fixes in Orca and given it is used on other DE than GNOME.
>
> Agreed, AIUI, Orca is not so tied to gnome releases: newer Orca should
> be working fine with older Gnome.  It's then more a question whether
> Orca non-even releases are usually less stable than even releases.  Do
> people have an opinion on this? 

Orca doesn't really provide alpha or beta versions. Each tagged versions 
are targeted to be the next stable release. Tagged versions are just 
snapshots of the git master branch.

> We can also upload non-even versions to
> experimental and keep even versions in unstable.

I agree with this proposal.

Best regards.
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Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"