Re: [ros-dev] State of the Repository September 2nd 2005

[Gge]

WaxDragon wrote:
>   First, some stats:
>  
>  In August there were:
>  * 676 Commits 
>  * 49 bugs opened
>  * 139 bugs touched
>  * 44 bugs closed
>  
>  Looking over the logs, here are some of the big and/or highly visible changes:
>  
>  *sedwards bought in some winetests (in regtests/winetests)
>   This resulted in some immediate fixes
>  *navaraf replaced the pesum tool with pefixup
>  *sedwards brought dosfsck in late July, and enabled writing in August.
>   Still needs testing, but seems to work.
>  *brandonturner implemented windows style tab completion, replacing the
>  bash style we had before.  I believe this can be toggled. Also, cmd
>  has really been getting attention from brandonturner and greatlord,
>  may little bugs have been fixed. Thanks guys!
>  *ion removed the third-party driver info from the hives and placed
>  them in the wiki.
>    I felt this was a good move, since it will motivate people to
>  fix/implement driver installation.  The interim solution was going to
>  be creating .reg files to import or just re-add the info to your local
>  hives.  This had the side affect of breaking our vmware video driver
>  installer.  After some bugfixes, vmwinst now loads the driver, but
>  ReactOS seems unable to set the resolution.
>  *navaraf fixed the i8042prt detection, partially fixing the
>  AllocConsole bug. This was merged to 0.2.7 and we shipped it as a
>  known bug.  We have received just a few reports of the AllocConsole
>  bug on IRC, so it seems to work for most.
>  *navaraf fixed the translation of extended keys, fixing my bug
>  hilighting text with Shift+Arrow keys. Merged to 0.2.7, thanks Filip!
>  *ion twiddled the priority code, fixing some winetests
>  * ea returned to work on subsystem code
>  * gdalsnes fixed ftol, progressing Abiword 2.0.3
>  * ion corrected the LPC Message Structures
>  * amunger fixed the freeldr.ini Timeout ;0)
>  * hbirr fixed several bugs that were blocking selfhosting (ros-on-ros
>  compilation)
>    I am able to compile ros on ros with the patch from the selfhosting
>  bug. Thanks Hartmut!
>  * We found that release builds of msi.dll allow the VMWare Tools
>  installer to run, several bugs were fixes in relation to this. Thanks
>  everyone!
>  *fireball got USB keyboards working on the XBOX, along with various USB fixes
>  * ion cleaned up the NDK headers
>  * gvg added the autogenerated DIB code for 32 and 8 bpp
>  * navaraf reimplemented the HAL DMA routines
>  * There was some work on the MSVC backend, thanks to sedwards and royce
>  * navaraf fixed some bugs in NDIS
>  * navaraf tweaked the explorer taskbar, fixing the misaligned buttons
>  under windows
>    This exposes a bug in ReactOS, so the taskbar looks a little off now.
>  
>  17604 seems like a good way to start September:
>  
>  * shutdown bug fixed
>  
>  * Default Abiword 2.2.9 install works
>  * Abiword 2.2.9 runs and opens documents.
>  * 7-Zip 4.23 Installer works
>  * 7-Zip GUI has several issues
>  * 7za.exe (cli) works
>  * OO installer unpacks, but bombs a few pages in
>  * notepad opens and saves files properly
>  * winemine doesn't work
>  * solitare works
>  * ps works
>  * mc seems like it has issues (I'm not a user per se.)
>  * format still doesn't work
>  * calc doesn't even start
>  * cat works
>  * regedit can set values
>  * wallpaper stays if set in registry, not if using desk.cpl
>  
>  Networking:
>  * qemu networking fixed
>  * ftp fixed
>  * ping works
>  * ipconfig has issues
>  * finger works
>  * "route print" works
>  * netstat doesn't work
>  * ncftp has issues
>  * hostname works
>  * arp doesn't work
>  * mIRC installer works, fails creating icons (or start menu I don't remember)
>  * mIRC has several issues, can't get it to connect
>  
>  and the usual implementing new functions, syncing to wine, and bugfixes.
>  
>  Overall 17604 "feels" good and stable.  I was able to use the command
>  line without too much trouble, installed many packages, and only saw a
>  few BSODs, mainly in the network code.
>  
>  I think that is a pretty good summary, and since it's been the day of
>  long emails, I won't go any further.
>  
>  Please reply to this email if there is something I forgot, overlooked,
>  got wrong, etc..
>  
>  WD 

In addition , the following features/bug fixes are needed , for test 
progress , in the next release 0.3.0  :

- Bug#730 : Packmgr fails at start
- Bug#467: SB live!Value driver prtcls.sys not supported by Ntoskrnl
- Usb UHCI mode

Regards
Gge