Developer's corner
Branches
We use git for our development. The git repository is hosted by Gnome.
To get the GCompris master branch:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gcompris
cd gcompris
sh autogen.sh && make
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
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
- 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.
- 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.
