As you may noticed, May month is over, here is an update on that month's development plan, and a request to responsible people to comment on those too.
On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Aleksey Bragin wrote: > - USB support for keyboard and mouse devices. Right now, it needs > fixing the rare crash during booting (bug is bugzilled, comment > explaining how to solve the problem is attached, some investigation > remains), and more testing on real hardware. Crashes were not that rare, I would say they were quite often. Fixed. USB enabled in trunk. > - Uniata support: it solves many problems at once, such as a stupid > 8Gb limit which is a nonsense for a 2009-year operating system, and > Serial ATA support, which greatly enhances possible ReactOS usability > (along with the first item of this list). I use it in my builds > everyday for more than a month, it works very good. Problems: > VirtualBox CDROM support (it doesn't recognize it), on my > realhardware it also experiences similar problems. Bug is also > bugzilled, a lot of debug logs attached, so everyone can participate. Fixed, uniata enabled in trunk. > - Common NICs support: Cameron is doing great work, testers too. > There are some outstanding problems, which you can see from http:// > www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware/Network_cards Situation improved, would be good if Cameron could provide a short overview of what exactly has been improved, what NICs are supported now. > - Sound support: Johannes knows best, but getting any progress with > sound by 0.3.10 release date is greatly appreciated. Johannes - would you comment please, what improvements sound system got from 1st of may till today? > - Videocards support: Olaf performs some tesitng and bugreporting. > Third party drivers support is rather weak, http://www.reactos.org/ > wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards , and usually is > limited by VMWare's video driver which is being one of the most > supported through the ReactOS development history. Olaf - please comment. > Besides of that, Olaf is organizing the Golden Apps testing, so that > we won't discover regressions occasionally or by the time the release > is branched and everyone is awaiting, but instead that's going to > happen on a periodical basis, and he's going to manage this process > with help of our fellow testers. Olaf and Victor Martinez - please comment. > Target 0.3.10 release date is month from now on - that means, > somewhere in the end of May. Certainly, if our goals aren't met, the > release is going to be rescheduled and that's it, but, I'd like to > ask to concentrate on the above problems first. They are hard to > solve when every problem is being approached by one person, but with > a common effort they aren't going to be a problem. Updated release time would be to branch either end of this week or beginning of the next week. Any objections, comments, proposals? With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin. _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
