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

[Magnus Olsen]

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" <steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com>
To: <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
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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