[ros-dev] Re: Mail server maintenance on Tuesday, 6th December

2022-12-13 Thread Colin Finck
to Martin von Wittich from IServ GmbH, who provided valuable assistance during the migration! Best regards, Colin Am 30.11.2022 um 18:10 schrieb Colin Finck: Hi all! Our IServ system used for mail and mailing lists will be down for maintenance on TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2022 15

[ros-dev] Mail server maintenance on Tuesday, 6th December

2022-11-30 Thread Colin Finck
and the website/forums will stay live. Best regards, Colin Finck OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [reactos] 01/01: [COMCTL32] Addendum to last commit (#3674) CORE-17199

2021-07-04 Thread Colin Finck
Joachim Henze wrote: commit adee5ca255b7ed21f359ca8c1ca06bd44db90dcf Author: Joachim Henze AuthorDate: Mon Jun 28 02:05:56 2021 +0200 Commit: Joachim Henze CommitDate: Mon Jun 28 02:05:56 2021 +0200 [COMCTL32] Addendum to last commit (#3674) CORE-17199 Keep that section

Re: [ros-dev] The situation with version 0.4.14

2021-02-14 Thread Colin Finck
Hey Victor, Thanks for bringing up that topic again. Indeed, it's really time for 0.4.14.. I want to get forward with the release, hence I tend to vote for 1. However, it's also wrong to just ignore Joachim's tremendous work in compiling the list of regressions, and his valid concerns.

Re: [ros-dev] The situation with version 0.4.14

2021-02-09 Thread Colin Finck
This is not the kind of participation that has any place on the mailing list of an open-source project. Unsubscribed and blocked that person. Colin Am 09.02.2021 um 17:26 schrieb Dick: Hi, as a potential user this project makes me extremely tired. in 2000 or something like that i was

Re: [ros-dev] Mail server maintenance on Thursday, 4th February

2021-02-04 Thread Colin Finck
The maintenance went well and all services should be back up. Please let me know if you encounter any problems using the mail system or mailinglists. Colin Am 24.01.2021 um 21:53 schrieb Colin Finck: Hi all! Our IServ system used for mail and mailinglists will be down for maintenance

[ros-dev] Mail server maintenance on Thursday, 4th February

2021-01-24 Thread Colin Finck
will usually be delivered later. Other services won't be affected by this migration. In particular, all means of communication through Mattermost or the website/forums will stay live. Best regards, Colin Finck OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2020)

2021-01-06 Thread Colin Finck
Hello everybody and a happy new year! Am 26.11.2020 um 09:27 schrieb Colin Finck: So let's have an open discussion and voting process right here on the mailing list for everyone to see, to decide this once and for all! Just reply to this mail, tell about your reasons - and more importantly

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2020)

2020-12-02 Thread Colin Finck
://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/2658#discussion_r427615924 * https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/2658#issuecomment-631113317 Best regards, Colin Finck OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2020)

2020-12-01 Thread Colin Finck
on. -VS2010 [...] covers > 95% of CPP2011-standard. Not even close: [8] Best regards, Colin Finck [1] https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/2800 [2] https://github.com/reactos/CMake/commits/cmake-3.17.2-reactos [3] https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/1674#pullrequestreview-425803525

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2020)

2020-11-26 Thread Colin Finck
Am 25.11.2020 um 22:26 schrieb Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO: What about that discussion about why we have ditched out MSVC 2010 support You mean reintroducing an ancient compiler that forces us to hack around its incapacity to deal with anything more modern than C89? One that already makes it harder

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2020)

2020-11-15 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all, With several people asking for a status meeting, let's have another one before the year is over. Let me invite you to the meeting on Thursday, 26th November 2020 19:00 UTC Mattermost private channel "Meeting" So far, there is only one point on the agenda: *

[ros-dev] Not available for Status Meeting (August 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Keeping the usual schedule, our next bi-monthly status meeting would be on 27th August. Due to vacation, I won't be available on that date though and therefore cannot serve as the meeting moderator. If you want the meeting to take place on the usual date, please find another moderator.

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (June 2020)

2020-06-23 Thread Colin Finck
: * Channel moderation (Daniel) There may have been other things I missed, which is why I reiterate to send all agenda proposals by E-Mail. See you then, Colin Am 04.06.2020 um 09:13 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Let me invite you to the (almost) bi-monthly status meeting, takin

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (June 2020)

2020-06-04 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the (almost) bi-monthly status meeting, taking place Thursday, 25th June, 19:00 UTC, in the Mattermost private channel "Meeting". I missed to announce a meeting last month and also didn't get any proposals for the agenda. But apparently there is a need to discuss a

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (March 2020)

2020-03-26 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the bi-monthly status meeting, taking place *TODAY*, 19:00 UTC, in the Mattermost private channel "Meeting". I know that this announcement comes way too late, but hope that people can manage to join, even if it's just to get some distraction from all the bad news

Re: [ros-dev] Reinstating the ReactOS Meetings

2020-01-28 Thread Colin Finck
Colin Am 12.12.2019 um 22:30 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > We had our annual General Assembly of ReactOS Deutschland e.V. today. > Many things were discussed which are better discussed with the entire > ReactOS Team, which is why all of us agreed on reinstating the recu

[ros-dev] Reinstating the ReactOS Meetings

2019-12-12 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! We had our annual General Assembly of ReactOS Deutschland e.V. today. Many things were discussed which are better discussed with the entire ReactOS Team, which is why all of us agreed on reinstating the recurring ReactOS Meetings we had until February 2019. Let's try out a bi-monthly

[ros-dev] FOSDEM 2020

2019-11-23 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! It took a while but FOSDEM has finally put a list of accepted stands on their website: https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ Looks like we only got a stand on Sunday this year, with our friends from Haiku OS having one on Saturday only. Not really what I thought when

[ros-dev] Report from the GSoC Mentor Summit 2019

2019-10-20 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Victor and me are having a good time at this year's GSoC Mentor Summit in Munich, and it's time to get out a first report. Again, I'm getting the impression that all projects here pretty much share the same problems and ReactOS is not doing anything particular wrong. Today, I have

[ros-dev] Hackfest 2019 - Deadline for Merchandising and Financial Assistance

2019-07-04 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! The ReactOS Hackfest will take place in about a month and a week. Please revisit https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_Hackfest_2019/Lists and put yourself in all relevant lists if you are going to attend. I've just updated the Shirts/Hoodies section with the final design. Please check that

[ros-dev] BuildBot Upgrade on Tuesday

2019-06-23 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Our BuildBot at https://build.reactos.org is finally going to be upgraded from the ancient version 0.8.14 to the latest 2.3.1 release this Tuesday evening (CEST). We have postponed this for a very long time due to the fundamental UI changes in newer versions. The UI has been rewritten

Re: [ros-dev] MS Console/Terminal stuff (was: "RE: Ros-dev Digest, Vol 177, Issue 2")

2019-05-08 Thread Colin Finck
> 1.   Their license is MIT. At least it allows us to borrow ideas > from their code for how to implement stuff in ReactOS’ console/terminal. > (I suppose that if one wants to copy entire chunks of code, that I > wouldn’t do it, I’m not sure how the licensing of the original ReactOS > console

[ros-dev] ReactOS Hackfest 2019 will take place from 15th to 20th August in Berlin

2019-04-09 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! The ReactOS Hackfest goes into its fourth round! Join us from Thursday, 15th August to Tuesday, 20th August 2019, just at the same location in Berlin as last year. As every year, check out the https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_Hackfest_2019 and

[ros-dev] ReactOS 0.4.11 to be released tomorrow, March 4, 2019 - Press Kit is online!

2019-03-03 Thread Colin Finck
to send it to interested parties to let them know about the upcoming release in advance. Best regards, Colin Finck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (February 2019)

2019-02-26 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the February 2019 meeting, taking place this Thursday, February 28, 19:00 UTC. It will again happen in the private "Meeting" channel on our Mattermost server at https://chat.reactos.org. The current agenda is as follows: * Status Updates == As

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (January 2019) - Now on Mattermost!

2019-01-20 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! As announced previously (https://reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2019-January/019044.html), we'll be having the January meeting already this Thursday, January 24 in order to have enough time for our GSoC application. The meeting will also take place on our new Mattermost at

Re: [ros-dev] Ros-dev Digest, Vol 173, Issue 5

2019-01-13 Thread Colin Finck
Am 13.01.2019 um 09:59 schrieb Adam Stachowicz: > Message from chat.reactos.org : > > This team has reached the maximum number of allowed accounts. Contact > your systems administrator to set a higher limit. Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting! Colin

[ros-dev] Mattermost is live at chat.reactos.org!

2019-01-11 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Our own Mattermost instance is finally live at https://chat.reactos.org! Enjoy an infinitely searchable history, offline messages, native picture support, push notifications, a seamless experience on web and mobile, and more. All privately hosted on our own infrastructure and usable with

[ros-dev] Google Summer of Code 2019 Application

2019-01-07 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Happy new year from my side! Hope you all had nice holidays and that 2019 will be a successful year for ReactOS :) As always, the year begins with our Google Summer of Code application. It is now time to update https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019 and

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (December 2018)

2018-12-20 Thread Colin Finck
Mails have been sent to the addresses set in your reactos.org website accounts. Please check your inboxes! Cheers, Colin Am 19.12.2018 um 09:40 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > With Christmas fast approaching and many people traditionally being > unavailable over the holi

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (December 2018)

2018-12-19 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! With Christmas fast approaching and many people traditionally being unavailable over the holidays (myself included), let me prepone our monthly meeting to tomorrow, Thursday, December 20, 2018, 19:00 UTC. Invited members will again receive their IRC Server credentials shortly before the

[ros-dev] BuildBot and irc.reactos.org now using ReactOS.org accounts

2018-12-16 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Another important change has just been applied to ReactOS infrastructure: https://build.reactos.org and https://irc.reactos.org now use ReactOS.org accounts. Finally, we have a real global login system where you can access all ReactOS services with the same account! Please let me know if

[ros-dev] Doxygen migrated - now with a reasonable search feature!

2018-12-07 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Good news! I've just migrated the last of our existing services, Doxygen, to a new server that is a lot faster and more reliable. But I also had a look at the often criticized search feature and enabled the alternative EXTERNAL_SEARCH in the Doxyfile and on the server. This doubled the

[ros-dev] iso.reactos.org migrated to new server

2018-12-05 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! iso.reactos.org, the file server used by our build machines and the source for https://reactos.org/getbuilds, has been migrated to new hardware at a different location today. You should experience better transfer rates due to the increased bandwidth, and a higher availability. The new

[ros-dev] ReactOS 0.5 Planning

2018-11-30 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Planning the ReactOS 0.5 release and establishing a new roadmap was one of the points on the agenda of yesterday's meeting. This is still an ongoing process. Please make up your minds about what a ReactOS 0.5 release must offer in your opinion and write it down to

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Mails have been sent and IRC server started. Please check your inboxes and join! See you at 19:00 UTC Colin Am 24.11.2018 um 21:37 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Let me invite you to the November 2018 meeting, taking place next > Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. >

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Am 29.11.2018 um 11:05 schrieb Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo: > let me add a last topic: website translations > > Old website could be translated, current one can not. And i think its > good for the final user to see the webpage in his/her own language... I agree and this is one of the reasons

[ros-dev] Google Summer of Code 2019

2018-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! While there is still some time until the February 6, 2019 application deadline for projects, we should already begin planning our GSoC participation now! As today's meeting already has a long agenda, I delibereately didn't add GSoC to it. But I've already created

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Am 29.11.2018 um 10:28 schrieb Colin Finck: > 2. Web and Infrastructure Projects (Victor P. and Colin) >= Addendum to these: - Community.ReactOS.org (Colin) - Doxygen (Colin) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Am 24.11.2018 um 21:37 schrieb Colin Finck: > This will be the first meeting since August and I hope we get some more > topics than just the obligatory Status Reports. Please send your > proposals by replying to this mail. The current agenda is as follows: 1. Status Reports sin

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2018)

2018-11-24 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the November 2018 meeting, taking place next Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. Invited members will again receive their credentials shortly before the meeting. This will be the first meeting since August and I hope we get some more topics than just the

Re: [ros-dev] Website and JIRA Migration on Friday

2018-11-23 Thread Colin Finck
The migration is over and everything should be back to normal. Jira has also been upgraded to the latest version in the process. Please let me know if anything stopped working for you. Colin Am 21.11.2018 um 20:43 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all, > > Our last 3 servers are fina

[ros-dev] Website and JIRA Migration on Friday

2018-11-21 Thread Colin Finck
know when everything is over. Best regards, Colin Finck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[ros-dev] Git/SVN Server migrated

2018-11-20 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Another server has been migrated to new hardware and software today! I'm talking about our Git/SVN Server, which also serves BuildBot, Doxygen, download.reactos.org, etc. The anticipated and actual downtime has been so low again that I didn't even have to announce the migration in

[ros-dev] Last SVN repo finally converted to Git

2018-11-16 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Having converted the last ReactOS SVN repository (press-media) to Git today, we can finally call the entire Git migration done :) Well, probably it felt done for you for a long time, but I still struggled with that last repository until today. As I'm also about to migrate the Git/SVN

Re: [ros-dev] Mail server downtime tomorrow

2018-11-14 Thread Colin Finck
Everything went well and all mail services are back up again! The entire downtime has been around 10 minutes. Colin Am 13.11.2018 um 10:51 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Our mail server will be shut down for migration > >TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,

[ros-dev] Mail server downtime tomorrow

2018-11-13 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Our mail server will be shut down for migration TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, AROUND 9:00 UTC This will result in a temporary downtime for the following services: * @reactos.org E-Mail addresses * Mailing lists * https://iserv.reactos.org The migration has already been prepared

[ros-dev] ReactOS 0.4.10 to be released tomorrow, November 6, 2018 - Press Kit is online!

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Finck
to send it to interested parties to let them know about the upcoming release in advance. Best regards, Colin Finck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo

[ros-dev] Upcoming Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

2018-10-09 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all, As announced, I'll be travelling to California this Thursday to attend the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit from Friday to Sunday. I'll be using this opportunity to spread the word about ReactOS, our experiences with GSoC, and learning from other projects' experiences. I'm especially

Re: [ros-dev] Win8 theme for ReactOS?

2018-09-09 Thread Colin Finck
While Hermès' answer is totally correct, let me outline our reasons for that. First of all, you are right that ReactOS needs to work on its outer appearance. Many ReactOS developers agree with that and this is also what the press criticizes first on each ReactOS release. However, that problem

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (August 2018)

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the August 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. Invited members will again receive their credentials shortly before the meeting. The current agenda is: 1. Status Reports (extended) Note that this is the first meeting after

[ros-dev] Test_VBox finally fixed - but a flawed test remains

2018-08-27 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all, I took some time during Hackfest to upgrade our Test_VBox Testbot to Ubuntu 18.04, which finally brings us VirtualBox 5.2.x support for sysreg2. Pierre also worked on the relevant BuildBot scripts to improve their reliability. This has resulted in

Re: [ros-dev] Postponing the July Meeting

2018-08-02 Thread Colin Finck
Am 01.08.2018 um 20:16 schrieb Ged Murphy: > I have an item for the agenda. I'd like to discuss the possibility of moving > some of our drivers out of the main repo and into something more convenient. > [...] > If we're going to do that, why not consider others too. Network cards, sound > stack,

Re: [ros-dev] Postponing the July Meeting

2018-08-02 Thread Colin Finck
Invitations have been sent, please check your inboxes! Colin Am 26.07.2018 um 18:57 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Looking at the calendar, it would be time for the July Meeting today. > However, I didn't receive any agenda proposals and also forgot to > announce i

Re: [ros-dev] Repetitive "shell submit results failed" errors when running testbot manually

2018-08-01 Thread Colin Finck
I have checked the web server and the new "performance" configuration made it consume more RAM than available. This caused some website unavailabilities lately (500/502 error codes), which were also the cause for the failing submissions. I have now reduced the maximum number of simultaneous

[ros-dev] Postponing the July Meeting

2018-07-26 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Looking at the calendar, it would be time for the July Meeting today. However, I didn't receive any agenda proposals and also forgot to announce it in the course of releasing 0.4.9. So I suggest we postpone the meeting to next week's Thursday, August 2. Please send agenda proposals by

[ros-dev] ReactOS 0.4.9 to be released tomorrow, July 23, 2018 - Press Kit is online!

2018-07-22 Thread Colin Finck
/ReactOS/0.4.9/ReactOS-0.4.9-PressKit.zip Feel free to send it to interested parties to let them know about the upcoming release in advance. Best regards, Colin Finck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev

[ros-dev] Website migrated to a new Login system

2018-07-04 Thread Colin Finck
access. Best regards, Colin Finck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[ros-dev] Website Maintenance on Wednesday, July 4

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! The ReactOS Website along with the Forum, Wiki, and JIRA bug tracker will be down for maintenance for several hours during the day (European time) on Wednesday, July 4. In the course of this process, the user database will be migrated to the new RosLogin Single-Sign-On system

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (June 2018)

2018-06-28 Thread Colin Finck
Credentials have been sent, please check your inboxes! Colin Am 24.06.2018 um 10:59 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Let me invite you to the June 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, > June 28, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. > Invited members will again receive their credentials

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (June 2018)

2018-06-24 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the June 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. Invited members will again receive their credentials shortly before the meeting. The current agenda is: 1. Status Reports 2. ReactOS Hackfest on August 16 - 21 3. 0.4.9 release

[ros-dev] Announcing the ReactOS Hackfest 2018 in Berlin

2018-06-06 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! It's official now! The ReactOS Hackfest 2018 will take place from Thursday, 16th August 2018 to Tuesday, 21st August 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Thanks to Thomas, the event location is already checked out ("definitely more space than in Cologne") and he has found a hostel nearby. All

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (May 2018)

2018-05-30 Thread Colin Finck
Am 30.05.2018 um 13:26 schrieb Ged Murphy: > Potential problems are: > 4) something else? I've been struggling with e.g. https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/276 On the one hand, we definitely need official support for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese character sets. On the other hand, this must

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (May 2018) - topic "get the demo laptop running completly and enable automated tests"

2018-05-30 Thread Colin Finck
Am 30.05.2018 um 09:39 schrieb mich...@fritscher.net: >   * (unformated) printing (already working) Unfortunately, my demonstration back in 2015 was merely a proof-of-concept using low-level printer APIs. They work indeed, however almost every Win32 printing application uses the high-level GDI

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (May 2018)

2018-05-28 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the May 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. Invited members will again receive their credentials shortly before the meeting. Based on requests and current topics, the agenda looks like this: 1. Status Reports ==

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (April 2018)

2018-04-26 Thread Colin Finck
Credentials have been sent, please check your inboxes! Am 24.04.2018 um 13:59 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Let me invite you to the April 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, > April 26, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. > > There have been no requests for additional agenda

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (April 2018)

2018-04-24 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the April 2018 meeting, taking place this Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 19:00 UTC. There have been no requests for additional agenda points yet and I'm not aware of any developments of the outstanding points of last meeting, so right now the agenda only includes the

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (March 2018)

2018-03-29 Thread Colin Finck
The credentials have been sent. Please check your inboxes and join the IRC server! Am 22.03.2018 um 11:03 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > With GSoC and 0.4.8 approaching, and many interesting things going on, > it's finally time for a monthly meeting again. Let me invite you to

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (March 2018)

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! With GSoC and 0.4.8 approaching, and many interesting things going on, it's finally time for a monthly meeting again. Let me invite you to the March 2018 meeting, taking place next Thursday, March 29, 2018. Time will be 19:00 UTC as always. The agenda so far includes: - Status Updates

Re: [ros-dev] GSoc Proposal (WebSite)

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Finck
Hey Volodymyr, Thanks for your application! Help on the website is really appreciated as we currently lack web developers. It would be great if you could join #reactos and #reactos-dev on Freenode IRC, so we could talk some more and introduce you into the current state of our website. Also don't

Re: [ros-dev] GSoC 2018

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Finck
Am 18.03.2018 um 10:30 schrieb Huw Campbell: > As I suggested last year as well, I would strongly suggest trying to use > this opportunity to attack > one of the core issues for reactos, such as stabilising the memory > manager; bringing up > SMP support; or boldly porting to x64. From the

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] 01/01: [WTSAPI32] Sync with Wine 3.0. CORE-14225

2018-01-22 Thread Colin Finck
Am 22.01.2018 um 14:25 schrieb Ged Murphy: > Is this really a sync up? > It takes implemented functions are returns them to stubs I had asked the same question the other day: Given that many Wine-Staging patches never made it into upstream, could we actually lose features with the sync to WINE

Re: [ros-dev] Making bluescreens more useful

2018-01-11 Thread Colin Finck
I'm supporting Thomas idea and Pierre's additional suggestions. Let's show the world that BSODs can be useful! - Colin Am 11.01.2018 um 07:36 schrieb Pierre Schweitzer: > Good idea! > I would just have a few suggestions to make it even more useful: > - "Consider filing a ticket at

[ros-dev] First NT6+ application support in ReactOS

2018-01-10 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Starting with build 0.4.8-dev-655-g63a3a2c, ReactOS has first support for NT6+ applications (aka programs written for Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.). Please retest such applications under ReactOS! As newer Windows APIs are still missing in ReactOS, I would be surprised if a high number

[ros-dev] RAPPS Database now maintained in https://github.com/reactos/rapps-db

2018-01-08 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! We all wanted the RAPPS Database to leave the main source tree for a long time. When Alexander Shaposhnikov asked me today if it was possible to regenerate the rappmgr.cab on every commit, I took the opportunity and split off the /media/rapps folder (including all history) into its own

Re: [ros-dev] Project-tools repository converted to Git - Welcome our 18 new repos!

2018-01-08 Thread Colin Finck
gration can be considered done :) Enjoy! Colin Am 31.12.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all, > > I just finished converting our "project-tools" SVN repo to Git and > splitting it up into individual repositories in the process. > These repos have already been up

Re: [ros-dev] Postponing December Status Meeting

2018-01-04 Thread Colin Finck
Credentials have been sent, please check your inboxes. Cheers, Colin Am 28.12.2017 um 17:22 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > If we follow our usual schedule, the December Status Meeting would be > today. With such a late announcement and many people still on holidays, > I sug

[ros-dev] Project-tools repository converted to Git - Welcome our 18 new repos!

2017-12-31 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all, I just finished converting our "project-tools" SVN repo to Git and splitting it up into individual repositories in the process. These repos have already been uploaded to GitHub (https://github.com/reactos), so you can have a look and comment easily. Welcome these 18 new repositories: *

[ros-dev] Postponing December Status Meeting

2017-12-28 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! If we follow our usual schedule, the December Status Meeting would be today. With such a late announcement and many people still on holidays, I suggest postponing it to next Thursday, January 4, 2018. Time will be 19:00 UTC as always. I already asked on #reactos-dev and got some

Re: [ros-dev] Small suggestion for the abandoned SVN mirror on GitHub

2017-12-17 Thread Colin Finck
Am 17.12.2017 um 10:08 schrieb Alexander Shaposhnikov: > Hold on, there was some vgal work being reviewed! I don't know if he had > already transfered it to the new repo. Last change on that Pull Request 24 days ago. Ok, I've unarchived reactos-deprecated-gitsvn-dont-use for the moment until this

Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS 0.4.7 to be released tomorrow, 6th December 2017 - Press Kit is online!

2017-12-17 Thread Colin Finck
Am 17.12.2017 um 04:13 schrieb encoded: > Please mark release in jira please. Thanks! Done. Thanks for reporting! Cheers, Colin ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] Small suggestion for the abandoned SVN mirror on GitHub

2017-12-17 Thread Colin Finck
Hi Dmitry, Thanks for the suggestions! I just did that :) Cheers, Colin Am 17.12.2017 um 05:14 schrieb Dmitry D. Chernov: > Good day everyone. > > I'm talking about this repo: > https://github.com/reactos/reactos-deprecated-gitsvn-dont-use > > To prevent pull-requesting to it I suggest to

Re: [ros-dev] PineappleFund

2017-12-14 Thread Colin Finck
Am 14.12.2017 um 17:45 schrieb Colin Finck:> Nope. But let's draft an application! We applied :) - Colin ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Re: [ros-dev] PineappleFund

2017-12-14 Thread Colin Finck
Am 14.12.2017 um 17:38 schrieb Alexander Shaposhnikov: > Has anyone actually applied? Nope. But let's draft an application! I guess that's just a reply to that Reddit post? We have ReactOS Deutschland e.V. as a legally established non-profit organization in Germany, so we are technically as

Re: [ros-dev] Merging our x86 HALs

2017-12-14 Thread Colin Finck
Thanks for the numerous replies! Let's stop at this point and not talk this topic to death ;) Even if we don't know yet how many HALs are to be kept, we agree on reducing the number of HALs from the current 6. There is also no point in a final decision on this until we have code to back it. I

Re: [ros-dev] Merging our x86 HALs

2017-12-11 Thread Colin Finck
Am 11.12.2017 um 01:18 schrieb Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO:> If you basically put all the HALs into one, then you obtain bloated stuff (which remains in memory for the whole life of the OS). Example: standard HAL is 1MB vs. ACPI HAL which is few kBHave you actually checked what makes up this difference?

Re: [ros-dev] Merging our x86 HALs

2017-12-10 Thread Colin Finck
Am 10.12.2017 um 19:38 schrieb David Quintana (gigaherz): > Colin: Are we talking merge and decide which method to use at runtime Exactly! We don't even need boot flags: Just like the setup currently detects an ACPI-compliant computer, the HAL could do this at boot-up. It's also not too hard to

[ros-dev] Merging our x86 HALs

2017-12-10 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all, I have been looking into our HALs recently on the promise that it is a huge mess that needs fixing. Well, as a start I could imagine merging our 6 possible x86 HALs (Legacy, ACPI, APIC, ACPI+APIC, SMP, SMP+ACPI) into a single one, even if Windows ships individual ones. I see many

[ros-dev] ReactOS 0.4.7 to be released tomorrow, 6th December 2017 - Press Kit is online!

2017-12-05 Thread Colin Finck
/files/ReactOS/0.4.7/ReactOS-0.4.7-PressKit.zip Feel free to send it to interested parties to let them know about the upcoming release in advance. Best regards, Colin Finck ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2017)

2017-11-30 Thread Colin Finck
Am 29.11.2017 um 22:07 schrieb Colin Finck:> As always, you will get credentials for our private IRC server shortly > before the meeting. Mails have been sent, please check your inboxes. - Colin ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.or

[ros-dev] Status Meeting (November 2017)

2017-11-29 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Let me invite you to the monthly status meeting taking place tomorrow, November 29, 19:00 UTC. As always, you will get credentials for our private IRC server shortly before the meeting. No agenda proposals have been submitted to me so far. If that doesn't change, we may have a short

Re: [ros-dev] RosTests/RosApps in GitHub CI

2017-11-03 Thread Colin Finck
Am 03.11.2017 um 14:20 schrieb Thomas Faber: > If this is nontrivial I may have a look at it myself but someone would > need to point me to the right configuration/scripts please. The Travis configuration is in https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/.travis.yml Code that already filters

Re: [ros-dev] Question about commits with no commit log, or commits with no files but just the log, on Git.

2017-10-16 Thread Colin Finck
Am 16.10.2017 um 12:22 schrieb Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO:> After having noticed > https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commit/50ae5e7c5268222718174221366169e2b115b06a > I am wondering whether it is possible to add mechanisms (like git > pre-commit hooks) that check for, and > prevent potential

[ros-dev] JIRA up again - Do we still need FishEye?

2017-10-14 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Our two Atlassian tools JIRA and FishEye have been unavailable for some hours again. I have brought JIRA back up, but FishEye has been eating RAM and CPU like crazy again. In my opinion, this is unacceptable for a tool that is just a simple commit browser to us. Also I don't have any time

Re: [ros-dev] Testing Pull Requests

2017-10-14 Thread Colin Finck
Am 14. Oktober 2017 01:26:09 MESZ schrieb James Tabor : >Can we still use the ID for patches from Jara? Sure! They are processed using "git apply" now. - Colin ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org

[ros-dev] Testing Pull Requests

2017-10-12 Thread Colin Finck
Hi all! Apart from basic build testing through AppVeyor and Travis-CI, you can now also run all regression tests for the code belonging to a Pull Request. Just log in to our BuildBot at https://build.reactos.org with your development account credentials (formerly "SVN credentials"), select a

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [reactos] 01/01: Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18)

2017-10-06 Thread Colin Finck
Sorry for the huge diff E-Mail to ros-diffs! I have just configured git_multimail.py to a maximum of 5000 lines to not let that happen again. We can again reduce the limit later on if it turns out to be still too much. Best regards, Colin Finck

Re: [ros-dev] Status Meeting (September 2017)

2017-09-28 Thread Colin Finck
Credentials have been sent, please check your inboxes! Still nothing more than status reports on the agenda, so I'm looking forward to a short and effective meeting :) Cheers, Colin Am 28.09.2017 um 15:43 schrieb Colin Finck: > Hi all! > > Let me invite you to the monthly statu

Re: [ros-dev] once agaon about ReactOS trademark infringement by Facebook

2017-09-28 Thread Colin Finck
s that way. Best regards, Colin Finck Am 27.09.2017 um 11:34 schrieb Alexander Rechitskiy: > Hi! >   >   > Please, read this! >   > https://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2=16671 >   > --  > Best regards, Alexander Rechitskiy >   > > >

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