The shell extension 'slayer' will soon be removed.
It has been surpassed by the shell extension 'acppage'.
Since neither of the modules is yet active, this should not pose a problem.
Related issues:
CORE-10375 and CORE-13111
Regards,
Mark.
Hello all,
I'm currently upgrading my AHK Testbot to Fedora 25, 24 only receives backports and Fedora 26 is already on the way.
I never upgraded it before, so I don't know if it will take one or several hours to be back online. Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle
Am 16.03.2017 um 00:00 schrieb Giannis Adamopoulos:
> I was wondering if it is possible to delete every second iso instead of purging all isos before some time?
That's a good idea and makes sense for the bootcd-dbg ISOs.
So my final proposal is this one:
bootcd-dbg: 5 years (after that every second ISO is purged)
bootcd-dbgwin: 0.5 years
bootcd-rel: 0.5 years
bootcdregtest: 1 week
livecd-dbg: 0.5 years
livecd-dbgwin: 0.5 years
livecd-rel: 0.5 years
I'll be away until the beginning of April, so there is enough time for
any objections.
Otherwise, it will be set up exactly this way when I'm back.
- Colin
Hi all!
As of today, our high-performance servers Carrier, Mothership and Testee
are finally back in service for building and testing!
They take over many tasks from HotelLux, the generously provided server
from Aleksey, which had to bear the load of previously 3 separate
machines for over a year.
You should notice faster builds on the Windows buildslaves, a returned
VBox testslave, and more reliable ISO downloads.
The VMware testslave is not back yet, but I'll be reinstalling this one
as well.
In June, we also plan to upgrade our best-performing server even more,
using the donated 64GB of RAM and CPU upgrades that are cheaply
available these days. This should decrease build times even more!
Cheers,
Colin
Cheers,
I am student and i want help to develop ROS in GSoC. In part, i got
intereted in drivers idea.
I on 3rd year undergraduate by speciality applied mathematics and
informatics and i have experience in C/C++. I would like to work in
part intel high defenition audio bus driver. Can you point me to the
mentor? Thank you.
Best regards,
Alexander
Greetings,
I am a student that wants to work on developing ReactOS during this summer.
I got interested in Terminal Services idea. I have experience with C++ (and
bit of C) and Transport/Application layers network programming. I would
like to work on the part that is network related.
Is anyone available to mentor me for this task?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Dumitru
Hello everyone,
I am a Masters student and want to do the GSoC with this organization this
summer. I have gone through the list and found some projects domain
interesting but I couldn't research in the depth of the project due to
resource and time constraint at the moment.
I have some professional background in working with embedded software
development (mostly C programming), networking stacks and an RTOS porting.
Did some work in Linux development as well. I will be thankful if someone
can guide me chose the best suitable project that is beneficial for myself
and the organization at the same time. Currently, I have a look at
following projects:
Bluetooth Stack
Integrating SMB into ReactOS
Kernel mode test suite
WebKit-based MSHTML implementation
Support for the GPT Partitioning Scheme
Taskbar Shell extensions
If someone is interested in mentoring anyone of the above project, I will
be happy to talk more on that and submit a timely proposal.
Thanks a lot and best regards,
--
M Abdul Rehman
Dear all,
I'm a student interested in working for ReactOS. I've previously worked
with ReactOS(not GSOC). I've looked into xHci project, as I don't have prev
experience in writing drivers I'm a bit baffled.
>From what I've seen Johannes Anderwald , Michael Martin and Hervé
Poussineau have contributed most to the development of USB code. Is anyone
available to mentor me for this project?
Thanks in advance,
Rama Teja.G
Hi there,
I am under the impression that no mentor can be assigned to my audio mixer
proposal. Can someone confirm this or the opposite? If so I would like to
create a proposal on "Improving the quality of our Registry Hive
implementation", but since I don't have much time left and I haven't gone
through the relevant code, I would really appreciate it if you point me to
the mentor for this project.
Thank You
--
*Pranay Pratyush,*
3rd year undergraduate ,
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
--
Hello .
I am call atemafac kingsley. i am an undergraduate computer engineering student.
please i will like to take part on google summer of code . this is the time i am applying .
so i will like to be directed on how i can contribute .
thanks.
University of Beua Cameroon.
Hi all!
As you all know, our #reactos-dev IRC channel has been a moderated IRC
channel for decades, and only operators (devs) and voiced people can
talk. While we always tried to keep discussions dev-related there, no
topic has ever been enforced on #reactos. The result is that I see a
notable number of developers only on #reactos-dev these days.
This is a pretty bad situation! Emerging developers hardly have a way to
interact with all existing devs on IRC. Often enough, legitimate
questions from them remain unanswered on #reactos. Moreover, we don't
maintain the list of voiced people thoroughly, so even some contributors
have to ask for temporary voice on #reactos-dev.
Keep in mind that we're currently in the GSoC phase where students shall
submit their proposals and get in touch with the developers.
How are they going to do this on IRC if #reactos-dev continues to be an
exclusive club?
Because of these reasons, I'm proposing to remove the moderation bit on
#reactos-dev and let everybody talk there.
Its development topic should be enforced though! As soon as people get
too off-topic, they should be directed to #reactos and kicked if nothing
else helps. Given that all devs are already operators on #reactos-dev,
it's fully in their hands.
Cheers,
Colin
I don't agree. Maintain the auto-voice lists and get someone in charge of
operations, like I used to be for many years on IRC.
Instead, why not create a #reactos-gsoc or something?
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Mark Jansen <learn0more+ros(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> We can always try it out?
> If it doesnt work, restoring it is a simple as setting a flag on the
> channel.
>
> On 24 March 2017 at 16:31, David Quintana (gigaherz) <gigaherz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I disagree -- if we can be firm about the channel being only for
> development
> > talk, things should remain mostly as they are now.
> >
> > In any community, there's inevitably going to be idle talk, offtopic
> > conversations, etc. If you only have ONE place to talk in, all those
> thigns
> > are going to be mixed in with actual dev talk, but if you have clear
> rooms
> > set for each thing, the majority of people will be happy to leave all the
> > offtopic talk to the main channel, and dev talk to the dev channel.
> >
> > It works for plenty other projects and communities so there's no reason
> to
> > be pessimistic and think that "our idiots are worse". It's simply not
> true.
> >
> > I vote for trying, and we can always put back the +m if things get out of
> > hand.
> >
> > On 24 March 2017 at 16:13, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belusca(a)sfr.fr>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I don’t approve the idea. The fact is that if the devs quit originally
> >> #reactos, it’s because it was generally too noisy, etc… . If we remove
> the
> >> moderation irc bit in #reactos-dev, you may expect the same phenomenon
> to
> >> occur in #reactos-dev too.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] De la part de David
> >> Quintana (gigaherz)
> >> Envoyé : vendredi 24 mars 2017 11:35
> >> À : ReactOS Development List
> >> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Opening up #reactos-dev to the public
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I approve the idea.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24 March 2017 at 11:21, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> As you all know, our #reactos-dev IRC channel has been a moderated IRC
> >> channel for decades, and only operators (devs) and voiced people can
> >> talk. While we always tried to keep discussions dev-related there, no
> >> topic has ever been enforced on #reactos. The result is that I see a
> >> notable number of developers only on #reactos-dev these days.
> >>
> >> This is a pretty bad situation! Emerging developers hardly have a way to
> >> interact with all existing devs on IRC. Often enough, legitimate
> >> questions from them remain unanswered on #reactos. Moreover, we don't
> >> maintain the list of voiced people thoroughly, so even some contributors
> >> have to ask for temporary voice on #reactos-dev.
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that we're currently in the GSoC phase where students shall
> >> submit their proposals and get in touch with the developers.
> >> How are they going to do this on IRC if #reactos-dev continues to be an
> >> exclusive club?
> >>
> >> Because of these reasons, I'm proposing to remove the moderation bit on
> >> #reactos-dev and let everybody talk there.
> >> Its development topic should be enforced though! As soon as people get
> >> too off-topic, they should be directed to #reactos and kicked if nothing
> >> else helps. Given that all devs are already operators on #reactos-dev,
> >> it's fully in their hands.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
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On 2017-03-12 10:48, gadamopoulos(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> // *** IServiceProvider methods ***
> HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE CExplorerBand::QueryService(REFGUID guidService, REFIID riid, void **ppvObject)
> {
> - UNIMPLEMENTED;
> - return E_NOTIMPL;
> + /* FIXME: we probably want to handle more services here */
> + return IUnknown_QueryService(pSite, SID_SShellBrowser, riid, ppvObject);
> }
This seems dangerous. If someone requests something other than
SID_SShellBrowser, we'll just return them a different object without
any indication that something is wrong.
Shouldn't we either pass guidService down or fail somehow if it's not
asking for ShellBrowser?
khornicek(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> [RAPPS]
> - Add a custom build of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. This build
> contains mesa, gallium and llvmpipe. It provides an enormous
> performance boost over the software implementation present in
> opengl32.
That sounds fantastic! I'm just wondering, if it is better than our
current OpenGL software rendering in every regard, can't we just have it
as the default in our tree?
- Colin
Hi there,
I feel extremely enthusiastic about contributing to reactos through gsoc. I
looked into the idea list for 2017 and "Audio Mixer" looks the most
interesting to me. But I have absolutely no experience writing windows
services, let alone kernel streaming. I have experience with linux
internals and I have used Windows APIs in the past. I am really interested
in this. How do I get a mental map of what all things I need to do to
achieve this? What all stuff do I learn for this and how?
Also suggest me if I should drop this entirely and conribute through coding
something less "ambitious".
--
*Pranay Pratyush,*
3rd year undergraduate ,
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
--
Hi, I've a question concerning legal restrictions. As mentioned on this
page
https://reactos.org/wiki/Subversion#Prerequisites
I'm not allowed to contribute to ReactOS when I'm an employee of
Microsoft or of any subsidiary of Microsoft.
In the past, I worked for a German company which was a Certified Partner
of Microsoft. As far as I know, it was not a subsidiary of Microsoft.
It's not even listed here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
(but I don't know if this list is complete).
Since a Certified Partner is not automatically a MS subsidiary or
equivalent to it in a sense (as I think), there shouldn't be a problem
for me contributing to ReactOS. Is there anybody who can confirm that?
Tobias
Hi all!
Let me announce a definite date for our JIRA/FishEye upgrade:
Wednesday, March 8, around 9:00 UTC
Expect downtimes of several hours at https://code.reactos.org and
https://jira.reactos.org around this time.
I can say for sure that I will have enough time on this day and the
following to deal with all possible incidents that could happen during
the complex upgrade.
This also allows me to get direct in-person feedback from all the devs
attending CLT on the weekend after that :)
The upgrade to JIRA 7.x is a major one, and Atlassian recommends
everyone to have a look at the new features:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/migration/jira-7/server_jira_product-chang…
Best regards,
Colin
Dear Ricardo,
Firstly, Win16 application support doesn't interrupt our project. It strengthens us. On technical view, supporting them doesn't make any design change to NT architecture, apps won't be able to access hardware directly. Like any app, they'll obey the rules.
Secondly, there are a number of reasons to support Win16:
1) Many people and corporations still use DOS and Win16 apps today, thus their system can't be upgraded easily. Most of the cases, DOSBOX will do the job but what if any problem occurs, or integration with system is needed? With Win16 support out of the box, people will get much more technical support and security updates.
2) Many apps released in 90s have 16 bit setups, even they are actually 32-bit. In this case, compatibility and usability of ReactOS greatly decreases.
3) Sometimes emulation may be not enough for special cases.
4) There are many games from 16 bit age which is still played today. Supporting them makes a bonus.
In my opinion, this cases makes WoW16 support viable. Apologizes if I forget something and sending this twice, accidentally pressed the send button.
Best regards,
Can
I also have some ideas here, not fully sure about their feasibility. Tried to be wise as much as I can.
-Continuing USB work that vardanm started. Yes, I know a developer is working on that. Another joining student would be great and speed up things.
-Continuing TCP/IP stack work if noone is working on rewrite.
-Working on DirectX support: bringing new features, fixing bugs, optimising, if possible fixing some driver issues...
-Fixing driver unloading/fallback problem (CORE-8294) I think it's a hurdle on our hardware compatibility, but not sure its priority.
-Would some kind of Win32 subsystem work be too hard?
-Implementing some missing things in shell.
-Implementing more user mode stuff, or is it enough for now?
-Extending printing support.
-Fixing current audio support, if our devs don't want to tinker with it.
-Implementing WoW16 support. I suppose that'll draw attention.
And as said before, proper application compatibility database. :) By the way, I'm too pleased to join and see you here all!
With my best regards,
Can Taşan