Ros-dev February 2016

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ReactOS Participation in Google Summer of Code 2016

by Amine Khaldi

Hi, After five years the ReactOS Project is returning to the Google Summer of Code[1]! On the heels of the 0.4.0 release the project's aim is on creating smoother user experiences and generally making the system feel more robust and pleasant to use. The team is looking for students interested in learning more about the NT architecture that underpins the most widely used desktop operating system in the world and who wants to take part in the creation of an open source implementation of it. Please head on over to the project proposal page[2] to see some of the ideas we've come up with so far. If you have your own bright idea on how to make ReactOS even better don't be afraid to share as we're always open to new ideas. Either way please head over to the IRC channel[3] to give us a shout if you're interested. We promise, we don't bite. Mostly of the time ;) Cheers, Amine. [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6324900541235200/ [2] https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Ideas [3] https://reactos.org/irc

8 years, 9 months

ReactOS SVN version naming

by Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO

Hi guys, I would like to understand whats the rationale behind changing the ReactOS trunk version from 0.4-SVN to 0.5-SVN (see revision 70818) whereas we have just started to release ROS 0.4.0 only? Thanks in advance for your explanations! Cheers, Hermès.

8 years, 9 months

Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

by Mike Swanson

Hello there, A couple of you have already seen me make this request in IRC, but I will make a more formal one here. I've noticed that ReactOS still uses the Subversion VCS, and while this might have been a good choice when it was initially set up, in 2016, it is a rather backwards and self-defeating method to develop software. For users without write access to the repository, developing against it means that SVN serves barely better than copying a whole directory just to do a diff against it. Submitting patches means that they'll not be split up into logical steps (commits), and increases the difficulty of determining what a patch contains, or even making a sane commit message for it. In the modern DVCS world, this simply doesn't need to hold true. Each clone of the repository is exactly as the name implies: it's a clone. Users that want to hack away on the source are freer to do so, create their own private branches, commit to all their heart's content, and submit a pull request back to the project (don't think of GitHub as the only example of pull requests: they come in many forms and can even include "sending patches to a mailing list", which would still retain better properties than the Subversion model). I do urge to give consideration to moving development infrastructure to Git[*]. It would greatly ease both developer burden, and especially contributors' burden. It is, simply, what the modern world uses. :-) Secondary tale: I'm aware of git.reactos.org and GitHub both having a git-svn clone of the repository. These are "okay" for the most basic glances of the repo, but be warned that git-svn is unmaintained, extremely buggy, and should never be used for a serious migration. For a migration, we'll use reposurgeon. Each repository is unique and the problems cannot be fully automated away, sorry. Human intervention is required to do these properly. --- Now that I've talked about why, I'll note some observations about the Subversion repository in its present state: * Multiple logical projects exist in the namespace. At the very least, each of the subdirectories under /trunk should be translated to independent Git repositories. If there are even more historical ones (I've only looked at HEAD), we should get a list of them. * Old versions of RosBE are under /tags. Is RosBE maintained elsewhere? * A lot of old and new branches. If any of these are already merged into trunk, it may be best to just discard their preservation. Per- developer branches might work out best if each developer took 'ownership' of them with independent repository clones. An infrastructure and organization like https://git.kernel.org/ may be worth looking into. * Tagging conventions at least appear sane and logical, but they should be named with more conventional names for Git, usually a bare number or prefixed with v. For example, "0.3.17", "0.4.0", or "v0.3.17", "v0.4.0" -- this is a pure policy decision, but with one- project-per-repository, it keeps things looking clean. * It is very large. Over a gigabyte as a live repository, 14GB as a full stream dump. It will require a lot of memory to process and I'm not sure my own system will handle that. It will also take a long time to process and develop a migration -- the upper bound can be on the order of months of work. Development in Subversion should not be halted until the day the migration is being completed. [*] Okay, it doesn't have to be Git. Hypothetically, any DVCS will do, but only Mercurial has enough traction to be a viable alternative. Thanks for listening, Mike

8 years, 10 months

Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

by Ștefan Fulea

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:54 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz) <gigaherz at gmail.com> wrote: > I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is reducing > the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been mentioned already, > almost all projects who moved from SVN with "send patches" contribution > system, to Git/Hg with Pull Requests have got non-negligible growth in > contributions. > I don't know... Speaking about "the entry barriers for new contributors", this is contributing now: 1. svn checkout svn://svn.reactos.org/reactos/trunk/reactos 2. // make changes 3. svn diff > patch_for_JIRA_issue compare it with "Git/Hg with Pull Requests": 1. Create/Log in to your GitHub account 2. Go to the page for the code respository you want to contribute to (the “upstream”) 3. “Fork” the repository (this creates a clone to your GitHub account) 4. Create a local clone of your fork with git clone 5. Create a local branch for your changes 6. Make your changes and commit them to your local branch with git commit, ensuring to include a descriptive commit message 7. Push the branch to your GitHub fork using git push 8. Go to the page for the upstream repository go to the pull requests tab 9. Click the “New Pull Request” Button 10. Select the branch you want to submit, and write a summary of what your change explaining what it is intended to do and how it is implemented which is the process for "Raising a Pull Request" described in here: http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/pullrequest (the preferred source chosed by Google search for explaining to me what a "pull request" is). Ignoring the fact that new ReactOS contributions will have as prerequisite the signing up for a (commercial) third party service, GitHub may appear a good move for those familiar with GitHub intrinsic knowledge, but it doesn't to for the rest of us. I know that Amine Khaldi offered (on IRC, on #reactos-dev) to help to "resort to manually relaying to GH" "only if someone doesn't want to" sign up, but this will be counterproductive (who wants to be a burden and to abuse in such a way precious developer's time?) and will most likely prevent many not-so-motivated (but potentially precious) contributions outside this cherished GitHub community.

8 years, 10 months

Status Meeting (January-February 2016)

by Aleksey Bragin

Hello, Let me invite you to the monthly status meeting taking place last Thursday of a month, 25th of February, 19:00 UTC, as usual. IRC service will only be started shortly before the meeting. Your participation passwords and server address will be emailed to you shortly before the meeting starts, and they are going to be different once again as they are not stored in any database. Hopefully it's not much of inconvenience. Please send agenda proposals to me before the meeting. Regards, Aleksey Bragin

8 years, 10 months

Error trying to checkout reactos sources

by Thomas Schweikle

Hi! trying to checkout reactos sources using svn leads to: $ LANG=CC svn co https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ reactos svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale svn: warning: environment variable LANG is CC svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct Redirecting to URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos': Redirecting to URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos': svn: E195019: Redirect cycle detected for URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos' Trying the same using http instead of https: $ LANG=CC svn co http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ reactos svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale svn: warning: environment variable LANG is CC svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct Redirecting to URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos': Redirecting to URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos': svn: E195019: Redirect cycle detected for URL 'https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos' Trying to use git: $ LANG=CC git clone https://git.reactos.org/projects/reactos.git Cloning into 'reactos'... fatal: repository 'https://git.reactos.org/projects/reactos.git/' not found $ LANG=CC git clone https://git.reactos.org/reactos.git Cloning into 'reactos'... fatal: repository 'https://git.reactos.org/reactos.git/' not found Using https://github.com/mirror/reactos.git seems to be the only working variant ... -- Thomas

8 years, 10 months

ReactOS 0.4.0 Released

by Amine Khaldi

Nearly ten years ago the ReactOS Project released version 0.3.0. Today we are proud to announce the formal release of version 0.4.0! A great deal of work has gone into making this release happen and as we look back it is remarkable to consider how far the project has come since that release a decade ago. This release is both a celebration of and a testament to everything that the ReactOS team and community has achieved together. Here we document some of the highlights that separate 0.4.0 from not just the 0.3.17 release but also the cumulative achievements that the 0.3.x series achieved: https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-040-released A changelog is available at: https://reactos.org/wiki/ChangeLog-0.4.0 Thank you to all of you for having stood by the project for this long and we hope rewarding journey. For those of you chomping at the bit to check out the release, please go to the download page to get it now: https://reactos.org/download

8 years, 10 months

About ReactOS "perception" by people

by Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO

Hi all ! Please have a look at http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2 <http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14713> &t=14713 , I think these two posts (at the time of writing this mail) show/remind few points about ReactOS that need to be more emphased/better explained in our website (and concerning the license, better be shown; notice that we run with GPL + BSD for some parts of the code). Regards, Hermès

8 years, 10 months

[ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 70713: [WIN32SS] - Fix orthograph - Mention in the code that some stuff are hacks & need to be fixed. - Add parentheses around bit checks.

by James Tabor

Hello, Why is this a hack? Thanks, James Modified: trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos… ============================================================================== --- trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c [iso-8859-1] Fri Feb 12 16:40:36 2016 @@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ pwndParent = Window->spwndParent; if (pwndParent == UserGetDesktopWindow()) { - ERR("Parent is Desktop, Min off screen!\n"); - /* ReactOS doesn't support iconic minimize to desktop */ + ERR("FIXME: Parent is Desktop, Min off screen!\n"); + /* FIXME: ReactOS doesn't support iconic minimize to desktop */ Pos->x = Pos->y = -32000; Window->InternalPos.flags |= WPF_MININIT; Window->InternalPos.IconPos.x = Pos->x;

8 years, 10 months

Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 70713: [WIN32SS] - Fix orthograph - Mention in the code that some stuff are hacks & need to be fixed. - Add parentheses around bit checks.

by Ziggyesque＠hotmail.com

IIRC, it's a hack because neither x nor y is usually -32000, so those are flag values instead of fixed actual values. You have enough physical screens laid out in a line it's possible (16 1080p + a 1280 wide one), but still unlikely on one system given it would take multiple video cards to drive that many. The desktop as a decorated window hides the resize frame and title bar by positioning outside the effective area of a multiple screen layout and using a width and height that just encompasses the layout in Display Properties as the client area dimensions, with (0,0) of the viewports being one of the corners of the primary screen's client area. This forces at least one position coordinate to be negative by at least the width of the resize frame. I forget whether this is documented in the DDK or SDK, sorry, and which edition. ------ Original message------From: James TaborDate: Sat, Feb 13, 2016 12:03 AMTo: ReactOS Development List;Cc: Subject:[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 70713: [WIN32SS] - Fix orthograph - Mention in the code that some stuff are hacks & need to be fixed. - Add parentheses around bit checks. Hello, Why is this a hack? Thanks, James Modified: trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos… ============================================================================== --- trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ trunk/reactos/win32ss/user/ntuser/winpos.c [iso-8859-1] Fri Feb 12 16:40:36 2016 @@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ pwndParent = Window->spwndParent; if (pwndParent == UserGetDesktopWindow()) { - ERR("Parent is Desktop, Min off screen!\n"); - /* ReactOS doesn't support iconic minimize to desktop */ + ERR("FIXME: Parent is Desktop, Min off screen!\n"); + /* FIXME: ReactOS doesn't support iconic minimize to desktop */ Pos->x = Pos->y = -32000; Window->InternalPos.flags |= WPF_MININIT; Window->InternalPos.IconPos.x = Pos->x; _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

8 years, 10 months

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