Developer's corner

Branches

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

• 8.4.X (git master): The stable version. Maintenance mode.
• 8.3.4 (git 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.XO (git origin/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.
• 8.5 (git origin/gcomprixogoo): This is based on the OLPC XO branch but uses the goocanvas instead of the gnomecanvas+libart. This is where the new code is going.

To get GCompris from git:

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

To get GCompris development branch from subversion:

git checkout -b gcomprixogoo origin/gcomprixogo

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 for activities
• Star system review
• Requested Features
• GCompris work in progress
• Todo for 8.3 (GCOMPRIS_8_3 branch)
• Todo for 8.4 (trunk)
• Todo for 8.5 (gcomprixogoo branch)
• 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.