Developer's corner

Branches

We use subversion for our development. Currently, the active branches are:

• 8.4.1 (svn trunk): The stable version.
• 8.3.4 (svn branches/GCOMPRIS_8_3): The stable version for Windows. This version exist only because I have not yet updated my build environment on Windows to support the gstreamer audio backend. Until I can build the 8.4 on Windows, I backport the main fixes and features from 8.4 in this branch.
• 8.5 (svn branches/gcomprixo): This is the current OLPC XO branch. It's a major refactoring to allow us to provide independent activities to the OLPC project, and others.

Technology test:

• svn branches/gcomprixogoo, based on gcomprixo branch, port of GCompris to use the goocanvas instead of the gnomecanvas+libart. Read the API here.

To get GCompris from subversion:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gcompris/trunk 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

The Drawing board

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

• Ideas of activities
• Star system review
• Requested Features
• GCompris work in progress
• Todo for 8.3
• Todo for 8.4
• Todo for 8.5 (Also known as gcomprixo)
• Todo for OLPC/sugar future ? Review of sugar/OLPC activities and way to integrate.
• Notes on OSX port
• Tuxdroid is a little robot from Kysoh that would be fun to integrate with GCompris.
• Icons Sugarisation

Translations

• GCompris translations are managed by the Gnome translation teams.
• Voices translation.
• Web site translation is managed by volunteers.

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.