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RE: [ros-dev] The WRK and what it means for ReactOS
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Alex Ionescu wrote: > Alternatively, it can be > used as pure documentation, which gives us all the freedom in > the world. This would be the preferred method IMO. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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Time for another change
by Steven Edwards 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Hi All, I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that given the current state of things we are going in the right direction. I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up, providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations. I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and support from outside the project would be much higher. At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will be at some point but not during my time of being really active. In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms plans, most of which have been a success: US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats not going to happen any time soon. Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in to the Wine tree. Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already. Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our project, its goals and future. Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of information for educational purposes. So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up. I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email me directly. Thanks -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

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r21332
by Alex Ionescu 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

> [10:24] <+CIA-9> mbosma * r21332 reactos/dll/directx/ddraw/ (7 files): Unlock ddraw dll. Maguns and I were the only authors and neither of us used > unclean methods to implement it. You're kidding right? I might as well unlock /ntoskrnl then. Best regards, Alex Ionescu

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Putting MIDL output into svn repository.
by Saveliy Tretiakov 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

May I add some midl generated files into svn? (like we do with flex and bison) Lack of features in widl is a great stopper to ReactOS development. Actually, I can't do anything with event logging api because of widl. I want to inplment some rpcss functionality, but widl stops me from doing this.

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Alpha workstation
by Steven Edwards 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Hi, Is anyone in the US interested in using the Alpha workstation for a possible port? Its kind of gathering dust here and if no one wants it I would rather we just sell it and stick the money in to the project pot. Thanks -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

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RE: [ros-dev] Wine sync
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

I've been planning to take over on the wine sync's, but have been waiting until I've finished setting up the audit process before looking into it. This is now in place as of a few days ago. I need to speak to Gé about a few things. -----Original Message----- From: Saveliy Tretiakov [mailto:saveliyt@mail.ru] Sent: 10 March 2006 07:33 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: [ros-dev] Wine sync We need a sync with wine :) Who can do it? Well, maybe I could do it myserlf, but I have very limited internet access... _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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dev blogging
by Ged Murphy 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

The following devs currently have a blog account set up. If any other devs want one setting up, please message me. Aleksey Bragin Alex Ionescu Andrew Munger Art Yerkes Casper Hornstrup Christoph von Wittich Gé van Geldorp Ged Murphy Hervé Poussineau kjkhyperion Klemens Friedl Maarten Bosma Magnus Olsen Mike Nordell Filip Navara Royce Mitchell III Steven Edwards Thomas Weidenmueller

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Perl support in ROS
by Adam Kennedy 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Hi there Just writing to enquire about the current state of Perl support in ROS (which I can't find any docs/information on) and to let you know that I and a few others are about to release a new non-ActiveState Win32 distribution of Perl, that is compiled with MinGW and is able to compile and install CPAN modules directly, rather than needing ActiveState's PPM library. At the moment I'm just weeding out the last Win32 bugs in the component parts of Bundle::CPAN, and awaiting a upgraded file installer that supports deleting or overwriting a file that is in use. With those in we'll release an initial beta, and after that the CPAN client should handle upgrading of any problems on the way to a production release. Would there be any interest in trying it out? Adam K

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RE: [ros-dev] Wine sync
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Eric Kohl wrote: > Hi! Hi Eric > I just started a three-week vacation and I'm upgrading my > computer right > now. My plan is to start porting WIDL this week. If you get chance to look at StartService too, I'll owe you beer or 3 ;) > PS: I think the WIDL source can be unlocked because it is > based on WINE > and the additional code was written by me, using IDL test > files and MIDL > from MSVC6. I agree. I think we need to draft up a process for unlocking code in the repository. The first port of call needs to be confirmation from the author. If the author confirms clean methods were utilised to write the code, it automatically fast tracks the audit. I know Arty has a good process for code which doesn't fall into this category. I'll try and get some sort of flowchart onto the wiki tonight. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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RE: [ros-dev] Wine sync
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Saveliy Tretiakov wrote: > > PS: I think the WIDL source can be unlocked because it is based on > > WINE and the additional code was written by me, using IDL > test files > > and MIDL from MSVC6. > > It is already unlocked. All code shared with wine is clean by default. That doesn't necessarily mean it's unlocked. With the exception of 1 or 2 folders, I locked everything in the repository regardless of what it was. Wine stuff will need to be unlocked as and when required. I think it's best to wait until we have a formal unlocking flowchart before we unlock any more code. There have already been 1 or 2 mistakes which we will now have to back-track. Ged. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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