30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
2:21 p.m.
About point 4, "New website status":
"He stated that every user needs to change his password after the migration"
where do i have to do so? what URL?
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:
March 2012 Meeting Minutes
2012-03-29
19:00 UTC
Fezile, #meeting
Proceedings
===========
* Meeting started at 19:00 UTC by Aleksey Bragin.
* Point 1: The state of Trunk
-----------------------------
* Cameron Gutman gave some examples how badly Trunk has regressed since
0.3.14:
- Frequent bugchecks and assertions in the console
- Broken Unicode in the console
- Several key apps such as Firefox, Ping, Dwnl and Notepad being
broken or rarely working
He opened a discussion about improving the quality of Trunk.
* Timo Kreuzer favorized a stricter revert-on-regressions policy. By
employing the Patchbot buildslave, "evil" changes should be detected in
advance before committing them. According to Giannis Adamopoulos, the
Patchbot currently needs 20 minutes in total for building and testing a
patch.
* Colin Finck asked whether the current regressions were visible in the
automated regression tests. Aleksey Bragin denied this for most of them as
these were usability problems not detected by our regression tests.
* Various people suggested frameworks such as AutoIt and AutoHotKey to
automate application testing as well.
* To also automate real hardware testing, Jan Blomqvist Kinander has set
up another server. He reported that he could successfully perform a remote
ReactOS installation on it and just needs some scripts to automate the
procedures now.
* Aleksey Bragin illustrated his plan to move more towards loosely managed
development. In particular, he wants to introduce Atlassian tools such as
FishEye and JIRA to plan activity and actually do stuff.
* Cameron Gutman wanted a firm decision about dealing with regressions
first. Aleksey Bragin responded that the current rules still apply: A
commit shall be reverted after one day if it breaks booting or
installation. Other regressions shall be reported in Bugzilla using the
REGRESSION prefix.
* Olaf Siejka criticized the way bugs are currently handled. The list at
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/**Bug_Filters#Patch_review_list<http://www.r…
getting bigger and bigger while developers don't take responsibility for
it. He added that a decision was taken to release early last month,
although no progress towards implementing it was visible.
* Alex Ionescu joined the meeting later and reopened the discussion about
using Atlassian tools. In his opinion, JIRA and FishEye can support our
development along with Bamboo as a build and continuous integration system.
Later on, these systems could be set up to only accept a commit if it can
be successfully built by Bamboo.
- Olaf Siejka wants to set up a Bamboo test system to evaluate the
tool.
- Alex Ionescu will send out an E-Mail as soon as our setup is ready
for testing.
* Point 2: Plan for the next month
------------------------------**----
* The previous discussion about improving development using new tools
continued here. While Aleksey Bragin outlined that he wants to finish the
setup in April, Alex Ionescu gave more examples about what needs to be
changed when moving to JIRA:
- A dynamic component maintainer list should be added to establish
a clear chain of responsibility for all parts of ReactOS.
- User privileges should be changed to let only component maintainers
classify their bugs.
* Furthermore, the list at http://www.reactos.org/wiki/**
Bug_Filters#Patch_review_list<http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Bug_Filters#Pa…
been discussed again. Alex Ionescu and Timo Kreuzer agreed that such
general lists are pointless and the following approach was suggested
instead:
- Developers owning bugs and being mailed about them
- Release not being made until all important bugs are fixed
- Someone to prioritize which bugs are blocking a release
* Alex Ionescu outlined more ideas about improving the release process. He
suggested to create a roadmap for each release and picking several specific
bugs as goals for this release. Only fixes for these bugs should go into a
release, new features could be prepared in branches.
* The branches idea was picked up by Amine Khaldi who questioned that SVN
was able to properly handle more branches for new features, release
preparation, etc. due to its limited branching capabilities.
* Alex Ionescu did not agree with this, because people can merge just
subdirectories of a branch into Trunk or even bundle all changes in .patch
files and simply apply them.
* Timo Kreuzer called for a feature freeze in Trunk before the discussion
on point 2 ended, but Aleksey Bragin stated that this would prevent further
work on fixing Mm.
* Aleksey Bragin finally repeated that he is going to finish the setup of
the new tools in April and wants to get everybody used to them. The idea of
having modules owners shall get more developer responsibility towards
issues and patches.
* Point 3: Next release discussion
------------------------------**----
* Aleksey Bragin postponed this discussion to the next meeting as most of
the topics have already been covered in the discussion about Trunk. No
objections were raised.
* Point 4: New website status
-----------------------------
* Maciej Bialas reported that he is at the point of applying small fixes
now as well as importing the user database into Drupal. He stated that
every user needs to change his password after the migration because of
different hashing algorithms used in Drupal and RosCMS.
* Pierre Schweitzer noted that we should prevent another mass mailing of
all registered users due to the problems caused by the last one.
* Ziliang Guo proposed to just create a sticky forum post and write a mail
to a ReactOS mailing list about the password changes. There were no
objections.
* The participants agreed to continue discussions about website content on
the mailing lists.
* Point 5: Miscellaneous
------------------------
* Giannis Adamopoulos picked up the new subsystem layout for Win32k, which
had already been discussed a year ago and was postponed. He outlined it at
http://pastie.org/3694259. Aleksey Bragin, James Tabor and Timo Kreuzer
agreed on it, so it will be committed within the next 4 days.
* Art Yerkes reported about his work on NewCC. In particular, he is
currently looking at a bug not existing in a non-NewCC build. He expects
other issues afterwards, but thinks that the entire work is progressing
well.
* Meeting closed at 21:55 UTC by Aleksey Bragin.
* Minutes written by Colin Finck.
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