Hello, yesterday we had a usual rant in #reactos-dev regarding organization, teaming and development issues, and I explained how I see it. I think explaining and discussing here would be beneficial.
I won't spend your time explaining how I came to this roadmap, I will go right to it. This roadmap is mainly usage-oriented and doesn't cover the kernel (it has its own one).
* Finish wine-based subsystem ("arwinss"), fixing all internal (absent in Wine and/or trunk) bugs. Milestone 1: user32 and gdi32 known to work and support at least all the apps listed in the Wine app compat database. * Test as many as possible apps known to work in Wine and determine those which fail. * Fix failing components (kernel32, ntdll, kernel, CSR, non-synced DLLs, etc). Milestone 2: ReactOS supporting quite wide amount of applications, including major apps like MS Office suites, Open Office, CAD systems, Adobe products. Decision point: Because other Win32 components are proven to work, NT- alike user32, gdi32 and win32k development may be boosted, testing simplified. * Implement filesystem drivers, using fastfat_new as a universal skeleton for FS drivers. Use ntfs3g library and that skeleton to develop an NTFS IFS driver. Milestone 3: ReactOS with NTFS support (quite important for end users, thus separated into a standalone milestone). * Total rewrite of networking, using NT's one as a model. Milestone 4: ReactOS with a rock-stable networking. Ability to host database servers, web and FTP servers. * Release 1.0 and profit ;)
So that's what I'm sticking to so far. I don't expect everyone to agree, but if more people are involved, achieving these milestones will happen faster. Also, they don't really have to go in a sequence, all of that may be done simulteneously (e.g. filesystem drivers must be developed against Windows 2003; kernel32 and ntdll could be fixed first using winetests without waiting for arwinss to be complete; networking could be again tested in existing ReactOS and Windows).
Comments, improvements are welcome.
WBR, Aleksey Bragin.