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 hardware also offers more
disk space and redundancy to keep our precious ISOs absolutely safe :)
Unfortunately, the new iso.reactos.org is no longer right next to the
build machines. This has several consequences: If I had left the build
scripts as-is, the build machines would have uploaded the bootcdregtest
ISOs to iso.reactos.org, just to download them multiple times for each
Testbot a minute later. This would be an excessive waste of ISP
bandwidth and would have delayed the entire testing process.
Therefore, I changed the build scripts to keep the bootcdregtest ISOs
within the local build machine network. However, the downside is that
bootcdregtest ISOs are no longer available via iso.reactos.org.
Please let me know if this is a problem for you and needs a solution.
In the past, bootcdregtest ISOs were only available for a week and not
accessible via GetBuilds either, so I have no idea how popular they are.
Cheers,
Colin
Hi all,
The Test_KVM_AHK machine has encountered a power shortage in my area and is currently shut off.
I will bring it back on today evening. Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle
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 runtime for Doxygen due to the additional indexing, but the
result is well worth the effort!
A simple search for a universal function like "Sleep" now instantly
yields all results, but with the definition in "winbase.h" and the
declaration in "kernel32/client/synch.c" at the very top! Results are
also a lot more readable and distributed over multiple pages.
Just try it yourself:
https://doxygen.reactos.org/search.html?query=Sleep
Hope you'll like it as much as I do! :)
We can now start tweaking the extra settings, e.g. whether we need
"Referenced by" and other information.
ReactOS is already known to many due to our Doxygen popping up whenever
they google a Windows API. This step should improve the usefulness of
our documentation even further and turn the ReactOS codebase into *the*
public reference about Windows internals again!
I hope it also motivates you to take care of Doxygen-compatible comments
during your coding :)
Cheers,
Colin
Are you sure its better to follow Win behavior on this?
I think its a enhancement, specially if there are many open windows at a
given time....
it saves time!
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 https://reactos.org/wiki/0.5.0
To get a realistic roadmap, it is important that we define a responsible
person for each task. It should be the person having the most in-depth
knowledge about the status of the affected ReactOS components.
Don't worry, we won't put any pressure on you to complete the task soon.
But we need someone who can give a detailed report about the current status.
If nobody can be the responsible person for a certain task, having it
for 0.5 is not realistic and it eventually needs to be removed from the
roadmap.
But that's for later! Let's first add all points we consider important
until the end of the year. If you can already add yourself as the
responsible person, even better! :)
Cheers,
Colin
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
https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019 and
https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Ideas
Please decide whether you want to be a GSoC org admin or mentor and add
your ideas to the list or remove deprecated ones.
My experience from the Mentor Summit tells me that proper planning and
advertising can make a huge difference for our 2019 participation and
will certainly get us more students :)
Cheers,
Colin