Re: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again

[David Johnson]

I am waiting with bated breth for 0.3.
I have a test system that is waiting for USB. As soon as USB is working I
will put ROS on my real hardware for testing.

I hope this will be a help to the group.

On 11/17/05, Richard Campbell [e-mail] wrote:
> I'd like to recommend that releases after 0.3 be focused on stability.
> If an application makes a bad call/isn't compatible/whatever it
> shouldn't take down the whole system.
>
> Magnus Olsen wrote:
> > we already have some part of directx working in reactos
> > the graphic system of directx like directdraw and directd3d will maybe
>
> come
> > after 0.3 but I am planing gettin the win32k ready for d3d
> > after that I think it is egunt with dx support for 0.3
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Sent: den 17 November 2005 05:34
> > Subject: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again
> > > Hi All,
> > > My how history repeats itself. I would like to call for a feature freeze
> >
> > on Jan 1st with the
> > > approval of the Testing Coordinator. Although we have not had that many
> >
> > releases of the 0.2.x line
> > > I feel enough has changed to and that we need to bump to 0.3. Lets
>
> review
> > >
> >
> > some history
> > > 0.1.x - winhello
> > > 0.2.x - explorer and a few wine dlls
> > > 0.3.x - OpenGL games, Firefox, Mirc, OpenOffice, third party drivers,
> >
> > start of PnP, USB, Xbox
> > > support, Initial DirectX Support, etc
> > >
> > > For the record we really did not plan on all of this other stuff for 0.3
> >
> > and a year ago most of us
> > > would have been happy with just Firefox and Mirc working under VMware
>
> and
> > >
> >
> > Qemu. In fact we were
> > > planning on that work for the 0.3 line to be included in 0.4 release.
> >
> > Which is great! I am happy
> > > to see that we have gone much further beyond our once limited goals.
> > >
> > > What I propose now is that everyone that has a open project try to
>
> either
> > >
> >
> > get it to a Alpha state
> > > by Jan 1st or admit that it just wont be ready for 0.3 and accept that.
> > >
> > > Current major works in progress:
> > >
> > > DirectX - GreatLord
> > > USB - Fireball
> > > PnP - hpoussin
> > > Ws2 - Ionescu
> > > msvcDDK - sedwards
> > >
> > > Can we get all of these in for 0.3? Ws2 is a showstopper for 0.3, USB at
> >
> > least for the Xbox in my
> > > mind is a showstopper as well. PnP would be really, really nice to have
> >
> > but if its not ready I
> > > think we should ship anyway and plan on doing a short run to 0.4 before
>
> we
> > >
> >
> > fully support PnP.
> > > DirectX I have no idea how close it is to working and my current pet
> >
> > project for MSVC/DDK and
> > > rbuild is not a feature. I would like to be able to build ReactOS with
>
> our
> > >
> >
> > DDK under msvc in the
> > > hopes of getting more developers to join the project and improve the
> >
> > quality of our code but I am
> > > happy to admit this is not a priority.
> > >
> > > So what does everyone think? Can we shot for a feeze for Jan 1st? How
>
> does
> > >
> >
> > Feb 1st sound for a
> > > release?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Steven
> > >
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