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April Meeting Minutes
by Amine Khaldi 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

April Meeting Minutes 2011-04-28 20:05 UTC Freenode, #reactos-meeting Participants ============ Adam Stachowicz Aleksey Bragin Amine Khaldi Art Yerkes Daniel Reimer Gabriel Ilardi Ged Murphy Giannis Adamopoulos Gregor Schneider Hervé Poussineau James Tabor Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo Johannes Anderwald Maciej Białas Matthias Kupfer Olaf Siejka Pierre Schweitzer Rafał Harabień Samuel Serapion Timo Kreuzer Victor Martinez Ziliang Guo Proceedings =========== ○ Meeting called to order at 20:05 UTC by Aleksey Bragin ○ Point 1 in the agenda: GSoC status update =========================================== ■ Amine mentioned that ReactOS has 6 slots this year, and that a great care was put in the accepted projects selection with focus on UI and stability, with the goal to release 0.4 shortly after a successful GSoC. He also mentioned that the students will be granted commit access to official branches, so that the community can follow their progress. Ged and Amine asked the present members to do their best to help the students in any way, not leaving them only to their mentors, and asked the students not to hesitate to request help from anyone. ○ Point 2: Current ReactOS work =============================== ■ Amine: GSoC related tasks and coordination, CMake branch regression tracking and fixing, with the help of Igor and Rafał, still into the website revamp and the ideas around it. ■ Olaf: He has just updated VBox testbot to VBox 4.0.6, and with the great help of Fireball and hackdog he finally got sysreg for it done as well. Olaf also mentioned that our stdio problem of sysreg turned into another less visible one, VBox serial output problem, typically for heavy text output on virtual com via pipes.. The log is very good, but sometimes short parts of text are relocated, like in http://www.reactos.org/testman/detail.php?id=1763684. As a result of these efforts, test repetitions should be more rare. He also suggested to try to run it via com0com once Fireball signs the 64bit driver. Another thing Olaf was working on is trying to shorten the patch queue (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Bug_Filters) and separate WIP patches from the ready for review patches, and he also began committing translations. ■ Matthias: He is working on patches and minor bug-fixes, with focus on win32 and win32k (espacially alt-tab). All the other ReactOS related tasks have nothing to do with developing. ■ Gregor: He mentioned that he doesn't have as much time as last year, since he works full time now, so he can only offer to help cleaning up bugzilla from time to time, committing patches, reviewing etc. Expect patches to random components from him, but he can't offer much irc activity. He's going through application patches currently. ■ Daniel: Not much time lately. He still hopes to get a new RosBE done in short term. ■ Javier: He tries to introduce new people to #reactos-es, and plans to work more on translations and to also blog about ReactOS in Spanish. ■ Samuel: He is already working on secur32 and started msv1_0. ■ Aleksey: He's trying to finish the ldr rewrite and commit it. Two blocker bugs are preventing him to do this: the first being the DLLs registration failures in the 2nd stage, and the other one is a random Firefox installer hang during file unpacking. When that's done, he plans to move on to organize the massive winesync of the tree, simultaneously trying to fix the remaining heap regressions (with someone?). The main problem is that he's traveling quite often during this time range, and thus can't work on ReactOS as he usually did, so any problem gets longer to solve. He will also continue working on arwinss after those tasks above are complete. ■ Gabriel: He keeps the forum clean on a daily basis (Spam mainly), and he also does small updates to the wiki, Bugzilla maintenance, committing translations and small patches, testing ReactOS and patches. He also added the svn log to the front page of the website and is currently giving some support to a guy that was interested in using ReactOS in his company. ■ Jim: He's mainly working on bug-fixing, especially keyboard messages and message in general. ■ Rafał: He's currently studying for his exams in May, and fixing random bugs from bugzilla during his breaks. He'll eventually help in CMake. ■ Giannis: He started researching his GSoC project and doing some tests. In the meantime he's trying to sort out any work that he started lately but not completed. ■ Johannes: He's mainly working on USB, planning to reach Mike's (mjmartin) driver state in the next few days, as most of the code written now is based on his implementation. He mentioned that today was good day for USB as lots of code got working. His initial goal is to get mass storage working with Win XP (thats the bulk and control transfers), then jump to hub driver and later the USB class driver, but he couldn't really say how long this will take. ■ Timo: He is focusing on his GSoC project. ■ Victor: He was busy this month with real life, but he's trying to create a Testing Forum Team, he hopes to start on it in the upcoming days. He also helps with the website revamp, and he's now preparing for the trip to Berlin for the LinuxTage event. ○ Point 3: Action List proposal =============================== ■ Amine referred to http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2011-April/014148.html for context, and asked the members whether they have any comments/suggestions about it. Nothing came up, so we proceeded to the next point of this meeting. ○ Point 4: Status of the upcoming LinuxTag event preparations ============================================================= ■ Matthias mentioned that the booth is booked and tables and furniture are ordered/reserved. Due to the lack of interest we have only 4 persons as booth personnel. He will ask whether or not we need a day in advance for preparation of booth, and he prefers to setup the booth on first day, as long we don't have to set up a lot of things. Therefore, he hasn't booked a hotel yet. His preferred hotel is too expensive, and as long as we have some changes in persons he thinks it's easier to book single rooms with a price around 50-70€ per night. ■ A brief discussion went on between Victor, Matthias and Gregor about booking, sharing rooms, what to bring...etc ○ Point 5: Website revamp. Current status, who is working, who is willing to help ================================================================================= ■ Ziliang mentioned that he's porting content over, trimming a lot of stuff in terms of the 'About' and 'Why ReactOS' sections. He merged some parts into the dev FAQ from the general FAQ, and got the location of the Drupal install from Danny, so that he can start dropping in test modules which will allow us to test main page layouts. ■ The rest of the discussion was just a reiteration of what's already in the website revamp collaborative document. ○ Meeting ended at 23:10 UTC. ○ Minutes submitted by Amine Khaldi.

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Task proposals
by Olaf Siejka 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Below, a brief list of tasks i would propose for review at the next meeting. Please post your proposals as well: - LDR rewrite; - HEAP rewrite regression fixup; - CMake adoption; - MSVC adoption; - WineSync; - LIBSync; - Sysreg fixup (stdio problems, transition to pipe, automatical backtrace); - WineTest-with-HEAP-debugging checkup (basically, running every test from suite with heap debugging enabled); - Video Driver fixup (fixing ReactOS to use real video drivers, bug #2286 and all connected);

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Action list
by Olaf Siejka 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Dear colleagues We need to some short-term planning within our project, as the amount of tasks awaiting will simply turn into chaos. I propose a list to be kept, named "Action list". It should list our goals, things to be done, for example Winesync, fixing some particular bug, etc. Every task should be assigned to particular person, who would choose to be responsible for getting it done. It doesn't need to be the only person working on this, but rather someone making sure its done and not forgotten. Other variable assigned to task would be a deadline - approximate one, susceptible to extension when necessary. Goals are removed from the list when completed. Action list should be reviewed at every meeting, by querying people responsible for every task, being asked for an update. I can keep such list. Awaiting proposals for tasks if you think this makes sense. Regards

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Re: [ros-dev] Ros-dev Digest, Vol 80, Issue 28
by Dimas FranK 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Thanks for attention tone I was thinking of developing for ntfs http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=NTFS 2011/4/25, ros-dev-request(a)reactos.org <ros-dev-request(a)reactos.org>: > Send Ros-dev mailing list submissions to > ros-dev(a)reactos.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ros-dev-request(a)reactos.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ros-dev-owner(a)reactos.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ros-dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Implementing ScmAssignNewTag (bug 6147) (Eric Kohl) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:09:19 +0200 > From: Eric Kohl <eric.kohl(a)t-online.de> > Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Implementing ScmAssignNewTag (bug 6147) > To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> > Message-ID: <4DB4755F.1040003(a)t-online.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hello Thomas, > > your plan sounds good to me. Just implement ScmAssingnNewTag and attach > the patch to bug #6147. I will review and and apply your patch if it is OK. > > Regards, > Eric > > > Thomas Faber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm thinking about implementing the ScmAssignNewTag function in >> base\system\services\rpcserver.c because of >> http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6147 >> >> My current plan would be: loop through all service keys in the >> registry, check the Tag values for all that are in the same group, >> and choose either max+1 or the first unused tag. >> >> Any opinions? Would it be important to observe how Windows calculates >> tags? Perhaps Eric has a good overview and thus an opinion on this >> service stuff? ;) >> >> Thanks. :) >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev(a)reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev(a)reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > End of Ros-dev Digest, Vol 80, Issue 28 > *************************************** >

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Implementing ScmAssignNewTag (bug 6147)
by Thomas Faber 24 Apr '11

24 Apr '11

Hi, I'm thinking about implementing the ScmAssignNewTag function in base\system\services\rpcserver.c because of http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6147 My current plan would be: loop through all service keys in the registry, check the Tag values for all that are in the same group, and choose either max+1 or the first unused tag. Any opinions? Would it be important to observe how Windows calculates tags? Perhaps Eric has a good overview and thus an opinion on this service stuff? ;) Thanks. :) Regards, Tom

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RSS feeds on the fron page
by Gabriel ilardi 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Hi team, I've found an rss service (http://www.rssinclude.com) that lets us add our svn activity in the frontage, result would like like this: http://img15.imageshack.us/i/svni.jpg/ I'd like to publish it in our site for all languages, anyone disagrees ? There are better ways to do it, but this is a fast one and we'll have more "news" (fresh info) in our homepage directly and right now.... Please answer. Thanks. Gabriel.

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1st stage gui installer partition manipulation
by Andrew Green 16 Apr '11

16 Apr '11

I have stumbled across this documentation http://doc.sch130.nsc.ru/www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/fmifs.shtml. What it contains discusses how partitions are created. The very cool thing is that by using FMIFS in the installer means that you can delete,create and resize all the partitions that the disk manager supports. This means it will make it a lot easier to add support to both without duplicating efforts.(windows vista+ has resizing xp doesn't seem to though) The current text installer doesn't use this as this part of reactos code is incomplete. I would like to add this to my gsoc proposal. Though I know I'm probably not going to get a place it may help me if I get a chance to do it in the future or maybe this could give ideas to someone else who tries. Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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Could opensource GPL USB driver for NT4 be help for implementing USB in ReactOS?
by Minas Abrahamyan 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Hi all, The subj. I'm talking about Woodhead's GPL USB driver: * Original page (and site) is dead ("Woodhead--NT4--USB" http://www.geocities.com/mypublic99/index.html ) * But files are backed up, for example, here: [ftp://piekraste.daba.lv/pub/Service_Pack/NT_4/NT4_USB/HS/] (or look into internet wayback machine) Regards, M.A.

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Advice required on User-mode to Kernel mode call for syslog(2) analog in ROS
by Minas Abrahamyan 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Hi all, I'm going to implement dmesg.exe, a ROS application to read dmesg/kmsg buffer (debug messages in kernel buffer), which is filled in by appropriate patch 6018 (here: http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6018 ) (BTW, it's not yet reviewed and not applied!). So I'm requesting advice on: What would be the better way for user-mode code to get the contents of kmsg buffer in kernel-space (kdbg)? Shortly: Linux has special system call "syslog" (man 2 syslog) FreeBSD uses its special sysctl interface to kernel along with 'kern.msgbuf' parameter. My questions: Do we need special system call like Linux, or even more, the whole family of them (sysctl('*')) as in BSD? How to implement simple system call for it, now? --- Now detailed info for unices: Linux case: * syslog(2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel int syslog(int type, char *bufp, int len); * also /proc/kmsg virtual file, which when being read returns buffer contents ==excerpt from man proc == /proc/kmsg This file can be used instead of the syslog(2) system call to read kernel messages. A process must have superuser privileges to read this file, and only one process should read this file. This file should not be read if a syslog process is running which uses the sys‐ log(2) system call facility to log kernel messages. Information in this file is retrieved with the dmesg(1) program. ==eo exerpt== dmesg in FreeBSD: Parameter 'kern.msgbuf' given to sysctl(3) returns contents of kernel message buffer. There is also 'kern.msgbuf_clear' to clean the buffer. --- WBR, Minas Abrahamyan

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [dreimer] 51296: - Sync all resource files with the English one. - Translate the new Dialog in the German one. - Normally we use BEGIN and END, no {} - DIALOG -> DIALOGEX
by Johannnes Anderwald 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Am 09.04.2011 16:46, schrieb dreimer(a)svn.reactos.org: > Author: dreimer > Date: Sat Apr 9 14:46:37 2011 > New Revision: 51296 > > URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=51296&view=rev > Log: > - Sync all resource files with the English one. > - Translate the new Dialog in the German one. > - Normally we use BEGIN and END, no {} > - DIALOG -> DIALOGEX > Hi, This change breaks sndvol32. Have you run sndvol32 after your changes? The reason is sndvol32 parses the dialog template code in memory, but it uses the DIALOG resource format instead of the DIALOGEX resource format. Please revert that partial change. kind regards, Johannes Anderwald

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