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  * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Transfer_of_Information_Summary_20th_-_23rd_April_2009|1 Transfer of Information Summary 20th - 23rd April 2009]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Attendees|1.1 Attendees]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Transfer_of_information|1.2 Transfer of information]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#API_Crawl|1.3 API Crawl]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Orca-based_sanity_check|1.4 Orca-based sanity check]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Remaining_work|1.5 Remaining work]]

======  Transfer of Information Summary 20th - 23rd April 2009 ======
=====  Attendees =====

  *  Willie Walker
  *  Mike Gorse
  *  Mark Doffman
  *  Brad Taylor
  *  Li Yuan
  *  Ke Wang
  *  Rob Taylor
=====  Transfer of information =====

Two people experienced with the code-base attended. Mark Doffman gave a brief overview of the specs and code tree. There has been a 300% increase in the number of people familiar with the project code-base.
=====  API Crawl =====

As a group we did a review of the D-Bus specification referring to the CORBA IDL specification and the code. A number of inconsistencies were found and resolved including:

  *  Passing of Attributes as a string rather than dictionary.
  *  Enums vs ints.
  *  Removed dead / unused API.
  *  Fixed bugs in pyatspi where return-values were not marshaled as requested in the specification.
  *  Fixed bugs in pyatspi where non-writable properties had 'write' methods.
=====  Orca-based sanity check =====

As a group we tested AT-SPI D-Bus with Orca & gtk-demo. This brought up a number of previously un-discovered bugs which were resolved.
=====  Remaining work =====

We discussed the work remaining and created a list of known problems and issues.

  *  Migrate AT-SPI changes made since project branch (04-2008). (1 week)

  *  CBindings (Unknown)
    *  Complete cspi API not-necessary. C Bindings should be provided for the accessible-transfer and caching mechanisms.
    *  Possibly gok will need re-writing or porting to the new API.

  *  Possibly implement Collections API on the client side. (4 weeks)

  *  Atk adaptor library does not handle containers with state MANAGES_DESCENDANTS.
    *  Gail changes can remove MANAGES_DESCENDANTS from the GailTreeView ATK implementation. (DONE)
    *  MANAGES_DESCENDANTS could be used to handle very large containers. Don't cache any children of a MANAGES_DESCENDANTS container. The container handles all of their method calls. (3 weeks)

  *  Interfaces for dealing with 'infinite space' containers. (Unknown)

  *  Discuss with D-Bus developers whether we should create an "X Session" bus for the purpose of accessibility. The purpose of this is to allow multi-user accessibility. (Dependency on external team, this change is a goal for Gnome 3.0 in general.)

  *  Discuss the 'Login Helper' interface with Jon McCann. This interface was previously part of the AT-SPI specification.
    *  Implement a login-helper registry as part of the AT-SPI registryd. (2 days)
    *  Requires changes in GOK.
    *  Requires changes in screen-saver.

  *  The Device Event Controller makes synchronous method calls blocking the application that notified it of the event. This can cause deadlock.
    *  Modify the 'notifyEvent' call in the atk-adaptor to be re-entrant. (DONE)

  *  Pyatspi makes blocking function calls. This will cause deadlock when an AT attempts to access accessibility information about itself. For example, Orca cannot access its own preferences GUI.
    *  Make all pyatspi D-Bus method calls re-entrant. (1 week with some external dependencies on python-dbus developers)

  *  New infrastructure needs to be integrated into the Gnome desktop.
    *  The registryd start-up process needs to be looked at. This includes the possibility of using DBus activation.
    *  A JHBuild module-set needs to be created for the project. (1 week)
    *  Gnome approval of external dependency for AT-SPI 2.
    *  Create documentation of the protocol / pyatspi API. D-Bus XML to HTML conversion. (1 week)

  *  Performance testing and improvements. (3 months)

  *  Improving test coverage and bug fixing. (6 months)

  *  Java access bridge needs converting to use the JNI and ATK adaptor. (4 months)