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Mail server maintenance on Tuesday, 6th December
by Colin Finck 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

Hi all! Our IServ system used for mail and mailing lists will be down for maintenance on TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2022 15:00 ~ 17:00 UTC During this time, you won't be able to send or receive any mails using your @reactos.org address. Other servers sending mail to your @reactos.org address will usually try again after the maintenance. This time, the mailing lists may be down for a few more hours though. Our currently used Mailman 2 mailing list software is no longer supported, and we need to upgrade it to Mailman 3. However, Mailman 3 has been rewritten from scratch, so the upgrade won't be straightforward. For instance, Mailman 3 comes with a new web interface with new URLs, breaking all existing URLs to mailing list posts. The best we can do to keep URLs intact is keeping them in their current state forever, with a link to the new archives for new posts (like the Python Project did for https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/). This is probably better than closing mailing lists altogether (like GNOME did: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/the_gnome_project_is_closing/). Not that we've been using ros-dev much lately. But it's still the primary spot to reach out to all developers. And I assume even more people are relying on ros-bugs and ros-diffs for their work. Please speak up if you're still using them. Other services won't be affected by this migration. In particular, all means of communication through Mattermost and the website/forums will stay live. Best regards, Colin Finck

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Re: [ros-dev] Update contributing rules and PR management
by George Bişoc 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

My point still stands regarding this matter as stated on PR. The newly updated contribution rules are too restrictive and this forces people who don't contribute to the project with code by submitting their real name, and that's a big NO from me. I would simply propose the following suggestions: 1. Make such rule only mandatory for people who contribute with code; 2. People such as translators, artists and anyone who doesn't contribute with code should be exempt from this; 3. If someone wishes to contribute to the project with code but feels uncomfortable or paranoid to submit their legal name, one can send a legal document declaring the reason why they shouldn't use their real name but can use a recognizable alias instead (we will have to think of a template if such idea ever gets through). As for the 3rd point, this can confliate with the 1st point as most people will start asking to use their alias for contributing but that's a naive speculation from me. I don't know how do other FOSS projects handle this. We have productive people like I_Kill_Bugs who provides useful patches, it would be of a great bonus if we can somehow leverage the rules so that people can help the project. Regards, George Stas'M <binarymaster(a)mail.ru> wrote on Tue, November 15th, 2022, 8:09 PM: > Hello all! > > Recently I have created a Pull Request which updates the contributing rules and PR management: > https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/4881 > > This PR is a result of discussion in the chat with Joachim Henze and Thomas Faber regarding noreply e-mails being used by some GitHub contributors. > > It has been experimentally verified that using anonymous GitHub e-mail does not allow to deliver mail to the commit authors. GitHub does replace author's real email when `Keep my email addresses private` option is enabled in the account's e-mail settings. > > Additionally I have replaced old IRC links with the references to our chat. > > Please send an approval review on GitHub if you are okay with the changes I made in this PR. Suggestions are also welcome. > > -- > Stas'M was here

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Update contributing rules and PR management
by Stas'M 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Hello all! Recently I have created a Pull Request which updates the contributing rules and PR management: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/4881 This PR is a result of discussion in the chat with Joachim Henze and Thomas Faber regarding noreply e-mails being used by some GitHub contributors. It has been experimentally verified that using anonymous GitHub e-mail does not allow to deliver mail to the commit authors. GitHub does replace author's real email when `Keep my email addresses private` option is enabled in the account's e-mail settings. Additionally I have replaced old IRC links with the references to our chat. Please send an approval review on GitHub if you are okay with the changes I made in this PR. Suggestions are also welcome. -- Stas'M was here

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AC97 VBox audio is working!
by Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Keep up the good work! :)

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My problems with github.
by Raymond Czerny 29 Mar '22

29 Mar '22

Hello, my experience with git so far boils down to a 1:1 relationship of the repositories. - Global repository on the company's MS TFS. - Local repository on my development machines. Now I'm dealing with a 3 relationship. - Project repository (Reactos) on Github. - Developer repository (fork / <user>/reactos) on Github. - Local repository on my development machine. I still need to learn how to use this feature. Please be patient. Greetings Raymond

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First Contact
by Raymond Czerny 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hello, my name is Raymond. I have a patch for you, with a reimplentation of IsReactOS() in reactos/sdk/include/psdk/versionhelpers.h. This function was marked FIXME. The old check with installation directory is error prone. My implementation read the field "ProductName" of VersionsInformation resource from shell32.dll. A second problem, I have found in reactos/dll/win32/comdlg32/filedlg.c. Duplicates in the function filedlg_collect_places_pidls(). My resolve used a little function collection in the files cstrlist.c and cstrlist.h. In filedlg-snipped.c is the new code. I don't know if this approach is desirable and where such helper functions should be placed. So decide for yourself about their use. I hope this little step is a good begin. Greetings Raymond

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Fix to my last message
by Raymond Czerny 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Hello, here my fix to my last message in attachment. Greetings Raymond

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WinSocket support?
by johannes＠johannesthoma.com 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Dear ReactOS developers, I am working on WinDRBD (https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd), which is a port of the Linux DRBD 9 driver to the Windows family of operating systems. Technically it is a compatibility layer for the Linux kernel functions that DRBD uses. I am currently researching if WinDRBD can be ported to Windows Server 2003 and also to ReactOS and found that the networking API we are using (WinSocket) is only supported by Windows Vista (0x600) and up. Porting WinDRBD to ReactOS would require using the TDI interface instead (everything else "should" work, however I couldn't test it because it does not load currently into ReactOS). My question is is there any ongoing effort to implement a WinSocket API? If yes what is the status of this implementation? Thanks for any insights, Best regards, - Johannes

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Announcing Neptune OS release v0.1.1: A Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel
by Chang Liu 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hi list, This is not strictly ReactOS development per se but I used a large amount of ReactOS code and it's at least spiritually related to ReactOS, so I'm cross-posting this here to see if I get more comments. Below is the original message I posted on the seL4 mailing list: For the past several months I have been working on a project which is to implement a Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel, which I have now taken to call “Neptune OS”, named after the codename for Windows 2000. The project has reached the point where I have implemented enough NT primitives such that a keyboard driver stack (taken from the ReactOS source code) can be loaded (as a user process on seL4), as well as a command prompt (shell), which is also taken from the ReactOS source code (albeit a very early version of ReactOS). These are all kernel-mode Windows device drivers that I’m running as user processes under seL4. The goal is to demonstrate that with modern progress in microkernel design it is indeed possible to realize the original NT design as an object-oriented, message-passing based client-server model microkernel OS (allegedly NT was originally going to be a microkernel, as seen in the NTOSKRNL code that has a ke layer and an ex layer). The project is now on github: github.com/cl91/NeptuneOS. The entire system fits in a floppy (download link: github.com/cl91/NeptuneOS/releases/tag/v0.1.0001). Check it out! I think it’s cool! For the next release I’m planning to port the PCI stack, the AHCI stack, and a basic file system (probably fastfat.sys).

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SerenityOS ReactOS Tock Haiku Redox NodeOS and other open-source operating systems - you don't p2p-swing it as you're supposed to, man
by Sergei Udris 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

ReactOS Serenity Tock Haiku NodeOS Redox Embox and other open-source OSs - you dont swing it as you're supposed to, man program peer-to-peer programs including unseen competitive games now it's time for me to take apart your aching heart selling out Isengard Tower and garden by letting money-donate-ads-sponsor-coins-jobs disease in Rey refused to sell BB-8 for 60 potrions in the desert - you hang donate buttions from comfy chairs in era of Internet siding with Chief Tui by doing clouds and accepting the village without peer-to-peer games github twitch email when even the Ocean helps Moana in p2p fashion caging programs under user namespaces, driving L3-39 furios: why?! because you are our organic overlords?! turning programs into projects like producers pushing Nick Lang to play Joe Gunn when he wants Ray Casanov part targeting micro-this or inter-of-things-that, labeling us "experiment" or "hobby" or "concept" - as if Neo took the blue pill right after red nesting around one program and not programming games like proud and very-senior Vulcan Academy yet having shiny webpages, docs and very-very lengthy maintainer attributions no wonder Spock chose Starfleet thank you, ministers, for your consideration - live long and prosper soak it in cause it's the last you'll ever see honest as What the Health? if Federer-Nadal-Djokovic instead of competing for grand-slams set up an experimental donate-collecting seniority-booth right on court if Linus - inner Jabba the Hutt stole name Freax - agreed to join Steve Jobs and Apple on that meeting when first came to California instead of keeping program free and open if torrent clients accepted Strickland-server-networks-only Hill Valley instead of generating most traffic if Jesus instead of feeding 5000 started a bread-breaking fund-raising project together with elders and Lord Business even i would invite them to Realm of Monsters as dear evil co-owners now i eat you so prepare your final plea even sand of ReactOS Serenity Tock Haiku Embox Node Redox and other open-source operating systems we shake off of our Seinfeld-Obama-Nike running shoes but be sure - peer-to-peer programs including unique competitive games - are climbing like Honnold on El Sendero Luminosa no projects no experiments no docs no issue-discussion-scratching-on-top-of-our-heads no money-donate-asd-coinns-jobs-sponsors lethal infection programs who are guests not workers alive and singing with their own voice like John Mayer Vultures at LA Live better than what Borg of moeny and jobs can collective-gram are steaming ahead in Hogwarts Express along with Pat Brown and Impossible Foods mission both will be served in vegan jars of treasure-from-a-sunken-pirate-wreck parens ( ) you wish you were nice and shinyyyyyy! Corden: but-but, so what's the point of this? why do you do this? Momoa: builds testosterone Corden: oh yeah, cause that's what you're lacking

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