I think USB comes under working/functional OS. Poeple need to be able to transfer files in and out on USB memory sticks and the like, actually run it on a PC post-2007 which lacks PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard ports, connect their WiFi dongle... Oh and I think uniata is very important. It'd help if you could actually INSTALL the OS in the first place on recent PCs. On 8 April 2010 16:10, Alexey Komarov q4a@bk.ru wrote:
What about uniata/scsi, usb drivers and hal?
WBR, Alexey Komarov.
08.04.2010 16:54, Aleksey Bragin пишет:
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.
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