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

[James Tabor]

Hi,
Steven Edwards wrote:
>   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 
0.2.9-rcX to 0.2.9

>   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
>   
Yes, these are show stoppers, so to keep the public happy we are going to need to
release RCx's
before 0.2.9.

>   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 
8^D
James