Thursday October 05, 2006 Orca v2.17.0 Released
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Our last release was Orca v1.0 exactly one month ago. If you had money in the office betting pool on what the next version number would be, you'd be a winner if you'd picked v2.17.0. |
We've adjusted the version number for Orca to align with the version number of the GNOME release that it's going into. Admittedly there isn't going to be a GNOME 2.17.0 release (the next one will be GNOME 2.17.1 about 18th October), but we had done several enhancements and bug fixes, that we wanted to get a version out there for Orca users to try out as soon as possible. See Will's announcement for all the details.
It'll also be in time for the Accessibility Summit at the GNOME Boston Summit next week.
Here's an interesting statistic. There are currently 85 "bugs" filed against Orca in GNOME Bugzilla at the moment.
- critical 1
- major 7
- normal 39
- minor 16
- enhancement 22
Of those 63 bugs (as opposed to enhancements), 25 of them are blocked due to other accessibility bugs in other applications or libraries.
Hopefully part of the Accessibility Summit next week will be spent helping other GNOME developers learn how to make their GNOME applications fully accessible and in helping them to understand and be motivated to fixup some of these problems.
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