I've gone though bugzilla and reviewed most of the bugs, here are the ones that are blockers, might become blockers, or caveats we need to keep in mind. I'm sure we will get some real blockers when we release RC1, but this is a start.
805 - Shutdown issues http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=805
This one MUST be fixed, it affects the default install configuration.
493 - excessive repainting in tree-view controls http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=493
I would really like to see some action on this, it renders regedit near useless, and I've seen this bug in other list style controls. Pegs the CPU.
688 - AllocConsole fails on real hardware due to i8042prt http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=688
This is one of the blockers from 0.2.7 that we shipped with. Is there anything that can be done about this? Can we put some debug info into the debug builds so we can gather information?
703 - ReactOS is a fat big. Minimum mem reqs exceeded. http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=703
This one is partially fixed. 32MB installs fail on vmware due to the speed of the file copy operation.
880 - Some dlls stop display output when starting in CLI http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=880
Not a huge bug that many people see, but this is holding up hpoussin's PnP work.
Discuss, WD
-- <arty> don't question it ... it's clearly an optimization