Developer's corner

Branches

We use git for our development. The git repository is hosted by Gnome but we also have a local web viewer.

To get the GCompris master branch (warning this takes more than 500MB) :

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gcompris
cd gcompris
sh autogen.sh && make

Alternatively, if you are only interested in the recent history, and would want to send in fixes as patches, you can use the option: git clone --depth=1 git://git.gnome.org/gcompris. It will save you more than 100MB.

Dependencies

GCompris has a lot of dependencies. On a Debian based distribution that already packages GCompris, you can install all the required dependencies with the command 'apt-get build-dep gcompris'.

Documentation

• GCompris internals gives an overview of the design of GCompris. It is a good starting point for anybody willing to contribute code.
• Adding an activity
• Adding a puzzle activity
• An exercise for Students
• Adding an explore activity

The Drawing board

These are pages to hold the different discussion for things we are working on:

• Ideas for activities
• Star system review
• Todo for OLPC/sugar future ? Review of sugar/OLPC activities and way to integrate.
• Notes on OSX port
• Language Learning (Bruno's main focus after project maintenance)
• Writing tutor
• HowTo

Translations

• GCompris translations are managed by the Gnome translation teams.
• Translation status for the Software itself.
• Translation addons. There is more than the .po file to translation GCompris.
• Voices translation.
• Web site translation is managed by volunteers.
• Wiktionary to XML

Packagers

GCompris is a large software which has numerous dependencies. We ask packagers to be very careful and follow this minimal and manual test process.