[ros-dev] I'm back

[Aleksey Bragin]

	Hello,
I'm back from my vacation which took part in Sweden this time (not  
counting a day passing through Finland). I had a pleasure of meeting  
Stefan Ginsberg ("Stefan100"), Magnus Olsen ("GreatLord"), Simon and 

his wife, and of course Jan Kinander ("JaixBly") who drove some  
hundreds kilometers from his city to meet all of us. I met all those  
persons for the first time in RL except for Stefan, who I met earlier  
this year in Brussels.

After a perfectly guided (mostly by Magnus ;)) tour through the Old  
City (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm, we made the first ReactOS discussion  
attempt in a very nice cafe at the island where Vasa museum is. We  
talked mostly about the history of ReactOS project, how I ended up in  
this project, what were the most problematic moments of its life and  
development ("Hartmut incident", etc), persons involved in ReactOS at  
various points in time. After Jan's parking ticked started expiring  
Simon suggested to move into his office to continue the talk.

We logged in to #reactos from the office, under GreatLord's nickname  
(it was a very unusual feeling when you type things, hit enter, and  
it appears as "<GreatLord> ..."), and we all together discussed  
future ways of ReactOS progress, possible commercial usage, possible  
support, stability and compatibility as usual, products which could  
utilize ReactOS and many many more things.

In the end, we shoot a video introducing all this "conference"  
participants, and it actually shows "Magnus in action" for the first  
time ever. The video seems rather black, and probably has poor  
quality (I haven't transferred it to my PC yet) but it should  
definately be interesting. I will edit it and put on youtube asap.

It was really great to meet all of you!


Now, to the actual development part of the email (why it ended up in  
ros-dev and not ros-general). After I left, I saw number of commits  
significantly decreased, and only some 94 commits were done in my  
absence (roughly 6 per day). Quality matters though, not quantity!

It's time to think about stabilizing what has been done and preparing  
a new release (without arwinss, if someone wonders).

1. Could someone of the testing team please provide me (here) a list  
of regressions (with corresponding bug numbers) introduced with  
recent ARMMM and other changes?
2. What is everyone up to right now, what unfinished work you have,  
what work you are about to finish, what you want and what you don't  
want to go to the next release? No need to write time consuming  
paragraphs of course, just provide a very quick overview / status so  
I and everyone else has idea what you are doing now and what to expect.
3. What's the most up to date GCC 4.4 status, estimates, problems  
(bug # would be enough).


Thanks,
Aleksey Bragin.