July 2012 Meeting A Minutes
2012-07-05
19:00 UTC
dev.reactos.org, #meeting
Proceedings
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* Meeting started at 19:16 UTC by Aleksey Bragin.
* Point 0: CD/Product Store
* Point 1: Update/Team Plan
* Point 2: Website Update
* Point 3: Internet Declaration
Due to scheduling constraints by some participants, the question of a
team store and sale of ReactOS CDs was moved to be the first topic.
* Point 0
Ziliang Guo presented the question of CD sales and merchendise sales
in general. Amine Khaldi updated the team on the work he and others
have done to get storefronts up and going. The primary concern was a
lack of decent designs for the stores. Ziliang was tasked with
contacting graphic artists he knows in the community to see if this
can be remedied. The decision of what to do with the promo CDs was
left to Ziliang as well.
* Point 1
Aleksey Bragin stated that he intended to help with Jira integration
with the new site, which is necessary as a replacement for bugzilla.
He also hopes to help with making the build environment more user
friendly.
Olaf Siejka reported on a variety of regressions in freeldr and the
win32 subsystem that he wants fixed as they are blocking further
development and testing. Other developers asked for specific reports
to be assigned to them and reviewed whether they thought they knew the
cause of regressions.
Collaboration with the UniATA developer was also discussed, with
reports that upstream patches have been accepted and suggestions on
further work that can be done.
* Point 2
Danny Gotte was not present so this point was skipped.
* Point 3
Pierre Schweitzer presented the Internet Declaration
(http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom), a statement of beliefs
drafted by various groups that wish the internet to remain free of
censorship and ensure user privacy. Many other organizations have
signed onto it and Pierre asked whether the ReactOS Foundation should
also do so. This was put to a vote and passed with overwhelming
support.
* Other Decisions
Ziliang requested that all developers be added onto the public
relations mailing list. This was approved.
Meeting was closed at 20:38 by Aleksey Bragin
Minutes were prepared by Ziliang Guo
Hello!
I was away this week, so the meeting at the usual time got canceled.
I propose to conduct meeting next thursday, 5th of July. If someone
would not be able to make it - please email me.
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin.
Hello everyone!
I just got freeldr working properly (sort of) on the iPhone 4!
Currently, I use Apple's iBSS
(first stage DFU bootloader), with the go command patched to always branch to
0x41000000. 0x41000000 contains the actual LLB, which is relocated to
0x42000000.
The LLB will initialize the ReactOS loader console and ARM loader
block, which is sent
to FreeLoader, just like on Omap3/Zoom2MDK and Versatile/PB.
Time to get ramdisks working. :)
http://goput.it/uc5.jpg <- There's your picture.
-- winocm
Barring any last minute hiccups, we expect to have a meeting this
Thursday. I am sending out this email because we have a PR topic we need
to discuss and I would like as many devs present as possible, and
considering Aleksey is likely asleep by now, I felt we needed this out
before "tomorrow" to give people enough heads up. Aleksey can make a more
formal announcement with other agenda points if he has them.
Z
Hi,
we are currently working on the failed server to fix it definitely (we
hope). I have set up a temporary solution to ensure ISOs are well
stored.
They cannot be downloaded though.
Sorry about all that troubles.
With my best regards,
P. Schweitzer
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 08:43 +0000, buildbot(a)reactos.org wrote:
> The Buildbot has detected a failed build on builder Trunk_x86_GCCLin Debug while building ReactOS.
> Full details are available at:
> http://build.reactos.org/builders/Trunk_x86_GCCLin%20Debug/builds/998
>
> Buildbot URL: http://build.reactos.org/
>
> Buildslave for this Build: Linux_AMD64_1
>
> Build Reason: scheduler
> Build Source Stamp: 56807
> Blamelist: tfaber
>
> BUILD FAILED: failed shell
>
> sincerely,
> -The Buildbot
>
>
--
Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org>
System Administrator
ReactOS Foundation
Hi,
this is unfortunately due to our entry server to network storage that
has crashed once again tonight. All attempts to remotely reboot it
failed. A human intervention will be required. It will not happen before
several hours. The responsible person for the server has been informed.
In case it was not possible to restore the server in a correct time, a
workaround solution will be deployed once again.
We are sorry for the caused inconvenience.
With my best regards,
P. Schweitzer
Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 21:10 +0000, buildbot(a)reactos.org a écrit :
> The Buildbot has detected a failed build on builder Trunk_x86_GCCLin Debug while building ReactOS.
> Full details are available at:
> http://build.reactos.org/builders/Trunk_x86_GCCLin%20Debug/builds/989
>
> Buildbot URL: http://build.reactos.org/
>
> Buildslave for this Build: Linux_AMD64_1
>
> Build Reason: scheduler
> Build Source Stamp: 56800
> Blamelist: ekohl
>
> BUILD FAILED: failed shell
>
> sincerely,
> -The Buildbot
>
>
--
Pierre Schweitzer <pierre(a)reactos.org>
Systems Administrator
ReactOS Foundation
Greetings All,
I am new to ReactOS but have much experience with with Windows, Linux,
etc... as well as programming mainly in C/C++.
Recently, I have decided to looking into ReactOS from a learning
perspective after which, once the learning curve has been completed, I may
try to get involved with some of the development efforts as well as work on
some additional projects.
>From what I have seen, ReactOS has come a very long ways in its development
and is really turning into a special OS to be recognized.
I would like to review some of the documentation on the Wiki but had a
question regarding an experiment that I wanted to investigate with ReactOS.
The question that I wanted to answer is this.
What is the absolute minimum size, as relates to booting and OS files that
are needed by ReactOS to run, for example, the notepad.exe program?
To caveat this, it would include leaving out all of the OS tools, Explorer,
Desktop, and absolutely everything that is not clearly needed to run the
notepad.exe application.
Basically, I would like ReactOS to boot and go directly into the notepad
application. The real point here is to investigate what "absolute" minimum
files are needed to run a simple application.
Sounds a bit crazy, but that is the question that I would like to answer.
Any ideas or information related to this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and have a great day,
Lonnie
Greetings All,
I have been reviewing ReactOS on the website and wiki to get a better feel
for the project, which I must say is very impressive.
>From what I have read, it seems that ReactOS is initially shooting for a
drop-in replacement for WindowsXP and beyond which raised a question for
me. The site also seems to suggest, for the most part and with the
exception of a few core ReactOS files (ie. kernel plus a couple of others),
that ReactOS should be 100% compatible with WindowsXP.
With this in mind, I wondered this. If I had an old licensed Windows XP
disk, which I do, then shouldn't it be possible to use the base core
ReactOS files (ie. the minimalist ReactOS configuration like in my previous
inquiry to the mailing list) and then use the WindowsXP subsystem core
files?
I guess what I was wondering, not to detract from the true developments of
ReactOS which I like a lot, is would the WindowsXP system files function
the same with the ReactOS kernel, and minimal files that were listed by
Alex in a previous email.
reeldr (ntldr)
ntoskrnl
hal
bootvid
kdcom
fastfat
ramdisk
kbdclass
i8042prt
ntdll
smss
What I am getting at, is a development that is still forming, but the idea
is to utilize ReactOS to allow for the development of a Super Sandbox
system that is run in a specialize VM, and which would allow for each
application to be run in their own ReactOS VM. Although I am still playing
with the idea a lot, it is forming in such a way that would totally isolate
each application in a separate VM that is composed of super minimal ReactOS
kernel running.
Just playing with ideas that I have had for a while, but at the moment, I
am still learning about ReactOS so that I will be able to contribute to it
soon.
Thanks and have a great day,
Lonnie
