Hi there,
I am under the impression that no mentor can be assigned to my audio mixer
proposal. Can someone confirm this or the opposite? If so I would like to
create a proposal on "Improving the quality of our Registry Hive
implementation", but since I don't have much time left and I haven't gone
through the relevant code, I would really appreciate it if you point me to
the mentor for this project.
Thank You
--
*Pranay Pratyush,*
3rd year undergraduate ,
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
--
Hello .
I am call atemafac kingsley. i am an undergraduate computer engineering student.
please i will like to take part on google summer of code . this is the time i am applying .
so i will like to be directed on how i can contribute .
thanks.
University of Beua Cameroon.
Hi all!
As you all know, our #reactos-dev IRC channel has been a moderated IRC
channel for decades, and only operators (devs) and voiced people can
talk. While we always tried to keep discussions dev-related there, no
topic has ever been enforced on #reactos. The result is that I see a
notable number of developers only on #reactos-dev these days.
This is a pretty bad situation! Emerging developers hardly have a way to
interact with all existing devs on IRC. Often enough, legitimate
questions from them remain unanswered on #reactos. Moreover, we don't
maintain the list of voiced people thoroughly, so even some contributors
have to ask for temporary voice on #reactos-dev.
Keep in mind that we're currently in the GSoC phase where students shall
submit their proposals and get in touch with the developers.
How are they going to do this on IRC if #reactos-dev continues to be an
exclusive club?
Because of these reasons, I'm proposing to remove the moderation bit on
#reactos-dev and let everybody talk there.
Its development topic should be enforced though! As soon as people get
too off-topic, they should be directed to #reactos and kicked if nothing
else helps. Given that all devs are already operators on #reactos-dev,
it's fully in their hands.
Cheers,
Colin
I don't agree. Maintain the auto-voice lists and get someone in charge of
operations, like I used to be for many years on IRC.
Instead, why not create a #reactos-gsoc or something?
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Mark Jansen <learn0more+ros(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> We can always try it out?
> If it doesnt work, restoring it is a simple as setting a flag on the
> channel.
>
> On 24 March 2017 at 16:31, David Quintana (gigaherz) <gigaherz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I disagree -- if we can be firm about the channel being only for
> development
> > talk, things should remain mostly as they are now.
> >
> > In any community, there's inevitably going to be idle talk, offtopic
> > conversations, etc. If you only have ONE place to talk in, all those
> thigns
> > are going to be mixed in with actual dev talk, but if you have clear
> rooms
> > set for each thing, the majority of people will be happy to leave all the
> > offtopic talk to the main channel, and dev talk to the dev channel.
> >
> > It works for plenty other projects and communities so there's no reason
> to
> > be pessimistic and think that "our idiots are worse". It's simply not
> true.
> >
> > I vote for trying, and we can always put back the +m if things get out of
> > hand.
> >
> > On 24 March 2017 at 16:13, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belusca(a)sfr.fr>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I don’t approve the idea. The fact is that if the devs quit originally
> >> #reactos, it’s because it was generally too noisy, etc… . If we remove
> the
> >> moderation irc bit in #reactos-dev, you may expect the same phenomenon
> to
> >> occur in #reactos-dev too.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] De la part de David
> >> Quintana (gigaherz)
> >> Envoyé : vendredi 24 mars 2017 11:35
> >> À : ReactOS Development List
> >> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Opening up #reactos-dev to the public
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I approve the idea.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24 March 2017 at 11:21, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> As you all know, our #reactos-dev IRC channel has been a moderated IRC
> >> channel for decades, and only operators (devs) and voiced people can
> >> talk. While we always tried to keep discussions dev-related there, no
> >> topic has ever been enforced on #reactos. The result is that I see a
> >> notable number of developers only on #reactos-dev these days.
> >>
> >> This is a pretty bad situation! Emerging developers hardly have a way to
> >> interact with all existing devs on IRC. Often enough, legitimate
> >> questions from them remain unanswered on #reactos. Moreover, we don't
> >> maintain the list of voiced people thoroughly, so even some contributors
> >> have to ask for temporary voice on #reactos-dev.
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that we're currently in the GSoC phase where students shall
> >> submit their proposals and get in touch with the developers.
> >> How are they going to do this on IRC if #reactos-dev continues to be an
> >> exclusive club?
> >>
> >> Because of these reasons, I'm proposing to remove the moderation bit on
> >> #reactos-dev and let everybody talk there.
> >> Its development topic should be enforced though! As soon as people get
> >> too off-topic, they should be directed to #reactos and kicked if nothing
> >> else helps. Given that all devs are already operators on #reactos-dev,
> >> it's fully in their hands.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
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> >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
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On 2017-03-12 10:48, gadamopoulos(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> // *** IServiceProvider methods ***
> HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE CExplorerBand::QueryService(REFGUID guidService, REFIID riid, void **ppvObject)
> {
> - UNIMPLEMENTED;
> - return E_NOTIMPL;
> + /* FIXME: we probably want to handle more services here */
> + return IUnknown_QueryService(pSite, SID_SShellBrowser, riid, ppvObject);
> }
This seems dangerous. If someone requests something other than
SID_SShellBrowser, we'll just return them a different object without
any indication that something is wrong.
Shouldn't we either pass guidService down or fail somehow if it's not
asking for ShellBrowser?
khornicek(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> [RAPPS]
> - Add a custom build of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. This build
> contains mesa, gallium and llvmpipe. It provides an enormous
> performance boost over the software implementation present in
> opengl32.
That sounds fantastic! I'm just wondering, if it is better than our
current OpenGL software rendering in every regard, can't we just have it
as the default in our tree?
- Colin
Hi there,
I feel extremely enthusiastic about contributing to reactos through gsoc. I
looked into the idea list for 2017 and "Audio Mixer" looks the most
interesting to me. But I have absolutely no experience writing windows
services, let alone kernel streaming. I have experience with linux
internals and I have used Windows APIs in the past. I am really interested
in this. How do I get a mental map of what all things I need to do to
achieve this? What all stuff do I learn for this and how?
Also suggest me if I should drop this entirely and conribute through coding
something less "ambitious".
--
*Pranay Pratyush,*
3rd year undergraduate ,
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
--
Hi, I've a question concerning legal restrictions. As mentioned on this
page
https://reactos.org/wiki/Subversion#Prerequisites
I'm not allowed to contribute to ReactOS when I'm an employee of
Microsoft or of any subsidiary of Microsoft.
In the past, I worked for a German company which was a Certified Partner
of Microsoft. As far as I know, it was not a subsidiary of Microsoft.
It's not even listed here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
(but I don't know if this list is complete).
Since a Certified Partner is not automatically a MS subsidiary or
equivalent to it in a sense (as I think), there shouldn't be a problem
for me contributing to ReactOS. Is there anybody who can confirm that?
Tobias
Hi all!
Let me announce a definite date for our JIRA/FishEye upgrade:
Wednesday, March 8, around 9:00 UTC
Expect downtimes of several hours at https://code.reactos.org and
https://jira.reactos.org around this time.
I can say for sure that I will have enough time on this day and the
following to deal with all possible incidents that could happen during
the complex upgrade.
This also allows me to get direct in-person feedback from all the devs
attending CLT on the weekend after that :)
The upgrade to JIRA 7.x is a major one, and Atlassian recommends
everyone to have a look at the new features:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/migration/jira-7/server_jira_product-chang…
Best regards,
Colin