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Topics for next Meeting
by Victor Perevertkin 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi all! I would like to propose some topic to discuss on the next meeting (will it be on March, 26?) * Drop one theme from "default" package. Last release we added two new themes, but they both look unfinished in many aspects. As we have an active maintainer for one of them (Mizu), my suggestion is to either drop the Lunar, or "merge" it with Lautus (I find them quite similar - correct me if I'm wrong) I think it's worth asking cernodile and foxlet about their thoughts. I have a strong opinion that 4 themes is too much for "default" package By the way, we have many times discussed an option to make custom themes be installed from Rapps. What do we need to do for that? And finally, it would be nice to write down some formal criteria for accepting themes. It will make PR reviewers' life easier :) * Hire a developer for dev-web interface and/or a devops for our infrastructure. Making that a GSoC project required too much effort for a mentor; so in the end the project was not too efficient in terms of time spent/amount of work done ratio (as a GSoC project it is great, but the interface is still far from being usable) I think it is reasonable to hire some experienced developer for maybe a month or something (is we have enough funds, ofc). That will probably require a more detailed task from us. Suggestions are welcome here :) We don't have to wait for a meeting, may start discussing that here :) Cheers, Victor

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Application for participation in GSOC 2020
by Chaitanya Gadgil 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear Sir/Madam, This is Chaitanya Gadgil from Bengaluru,India. I am a first year under-graduate student pursuing Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. I am interested to work with your organization for the GSoC 2020. I am interested to work on the end user development project "Application manager RAPPS". Goal setting with the project: Improvising user-system interactions Easier management of installed applications My skills are: 1.Programming knowledge in both C and C++ 2.Data structures and database management systems 3.Basics of MATLAB and Arduino 4. Mathematics 5. SQL Member of: The International Society of Automation The New York Academy of Sciences The Mathematical society of BMSCE Courses enrolled: Cybersecurity DBMS Networking using IOT Projects: Developing Smart Wearables using Integrated Sensor Network Architecture Developing an algorithmic approach to track malnutrition in India It would be a wonderful experience for me to work with your organization and collaborating for the project. It would be helpful if I can contact a mentor immediately so that I can interact and start working as soon as possible on the project. I am also willing to improve my skills if needed. I can guarantee of setting a good time for the project as I will be having vacations. Regards, Chaitanya Gadgil

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32-bit hosts virtualbox EOL
by Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

"Please also use version 5.2 if you still need support for 32-bit hosts, as this has been discontinued in 6.0. Version 5.2 will remain supported until July 2020." FYI That means, ROS will still be usable as guest, but not as host

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Reinstating the ReactOS Meetings
by Colin Finck 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi all! We had our annual General Assembly of ReactOS Deutschland e.V. today. Many things were discussed which are better discussed with the entire ReactOS Team, which is why all of us agreed on reinstating the recurring ReactOS Meetings we had until February 2019. Let's try out a bi-monthly schedule, with the first meeting happening on Thursday, January 30, 2020 19:00 UTC Mattermost private channel "Meeting" If you're currently not part of this channel, but think you should be, please contact me. I'm already announcing this, so we can collect topics for the meeting. Current points on the agenda: * Compiling an up-to-date list of tasks to work on, for newcomers, GSoC candidates, and developers to hire. Can already be started now by taking https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Ideas, copying it to "Google Summer of Code 2020", cleaning it up and adding new stuff. Maybe we also need to manage that with JIRA in the future. * RosBE 2.2, and what's blocking it, if it hasn't happened by then * ReactOS 0.4.13, and what's blocking it, if it hasn't happened by then Just reply if you have anything to add. Cheers, Colin

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wined3d, Mesa for Windows
by Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Hello guys, Please have a look at this website! https://fdossena.com/?p=articles.php?s=1 Maybe ReactOS can use any of these pieces of FOSS what do you think?

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FOSDEM 2020
by Colin Finck 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

Hi all! It took a while but FOSDEM has finally put a list of accepted stands on their website: https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ Looks like we only got a stand on Sunday this year, with our friends from Haiku OS having one on Saturday only. Not really what I thought when signing up for a "shared booth as always", but I'm sure we're going to manage that. There are plenty of opportunities for us to fill an entire weekend in Brussels, including * Having a "mini Hackfest" on Saturday in a coworking space in Brussels (or alternatively at FOSDEM itself, but it's going to be crowded there) * Following up on what Victor and me discussed with the FreeBSD, Haiku, NetBSD, and RTEMS people at GSoC Mentor Summit regarding a port of the low-level FreeBSD kernel interfaces to ReactOS, making a vast amount of network and storage drivers available to us. As far as I recall, the FreeBSD people have a conference in Brussels just before FOSDEM and are inviting us to join (Mahdi - correct me if I'm wrong). * Asking the Haiku guys if we shall try to join their booth on Saturday while they join ours on Sunday (Adrien? François?) But first I'd like to know who else is definitely going to make it to Brussels. Please reply to my mail ASAP, then we can have a short meeting on Mattermost soon and come to a decision. Cheers, Colin

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Report from the GSoC Mentor Summit 2019
by Colin Finck 20 Oct '19

20 Oct '19

Hi all! Victor and me are having a good time at this year's GSoC Mentor Summit in Munich, and it's time to get out a first report. Again, I'm getting the impression that all projects here pretty much share the same problems and ReactOS is not doing anything particular wrong. Today, I have attended a session about keeping students involved after GSoC. Most projects are struggling with that and there were some projects where it's usual for all students to just stay for GSoC and immediately leave afterwards. Anyway, I took some insights where we can improve to keep more of our students: * Give students some responsibility early on, so they feel responsible and needed for a project even after GSoC. The ultimate goal should be to turn them into mentors later. We already have a fairly good track record of that, but I think it should be emphasized here. * Invite more students to our Hackfest. We may need to postpone it by a few weeks to not clash with the final days of GSoC. For the MacPorts project, this resulted in all 3 students staying with the project after GSoC. * Talk to students on a personal level (possibly even through audio or video chat) and get them into our community. We had some high-performing students in the past who needed almost no mentoring, but this also resulted in less interactions with the community and we had a hard time to keep them involved after GSoC. * Collect tasks all year long, not just shortly before GSoC. This is important not just for keeping students, but also for enabling our paid development ideas around ReactOS. It's still important to ask a student what he or she wants to work on after GSoC, but we should always have some interesting tasks available. * Advertise our scholarship model early enough during GSoC to keep the people that are also doing it for the money. * Advertise our GSoC participation at universities. Some students managed to declare their GSoC participation as the technical internship required for their studies. All in all, the Mentor Summit again was a great opportunity to meet up with fellow Open-Source developers all around the world and have some interesting discussions. I'm already looking forward to the next one! We even got some ReactOS work done <https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/1835> just in sight distance of the Microsoft Germany HQ :D Cheers, Colin

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INVALID OPCODE
by katahiromz . 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

An error occurred in FreeLoader v3.0. 0x06: Exception 06: INVALID OPCODE

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why is the project so silent?
by Dick 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi, why is the project so silent? Normally there were messages about online meetings, upcomming releases etc. on this list but it became realy silent and the last release is long time ago. what happened to reactos? best regards, dick

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [reactos] 01/01: [NETAPI32] Add the NetpAllocStrFromWStr helper function
by Thomas Faber 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hey Eric, On 2019-08-24 14:01, Eric Kohl wrote: > +PSTR > +WINAPI > +NetpAllocStrFromWStr( > + _In_ PWSTR InString) > +{ > + UNICODE_STRING UnicodeString; > + OEM_STRING OemString; > + ULONG Size; > + NET_API_STATUS NetStatus; > + NTSTATUS Status; > + > + RtlInitUnicodeString(&UnicodeString, InString); > + > + Size = RtlUnicodeStringToOemSize(&UnicodeString); > + NetStatus = NetApiBufferAllocate(Size, > + (PVOID*)&OemString.Buffer); > + if (NetStatus != NERR_Success) > + return NULL; > + It seems like OemString.MaximumLength should be initialized before calling RtlUnicodeStringToOemString? > + Status = RtlUnicodeStringToOemString(&OemString, > + &UnicodeString, > + FALSE); > + if (!NT_SUCCESS(Status)) > + { > + NetApiBufferFree(OemString.Buffer); > + return NULL; > + } > + > + return OemString.Buffer; > +} Best, Thomas

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