Re: [ros-dev] Trunk Freeze

[art yerkes]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   WaxDragon wrote:
>
> >      It's only been two weeks since I sent out
> > the August State of the
> >  Repository, but the tree has already had 271 revisions. There have
> >  been several large commits, and trunk has had several build breakages,
> >  and instability in general.  Just today we had three commits reversing
> >  and unreversing some of Alex's changes. 
> >  I'm calling for a trunk
> >  freeze until several issues have been addressed.
> >
> >  * The release build is broken. So far the string library and the usb
> >  code have been fixed.  I was working with Alex on a break in the
> >  exception handling when this topic came up.
> >   
> >  
>  There's only that annoying ctype problem in rtl, afaik, which should
>  be fixed by including the modified ctype.h from ntoskrnl.
>
> >   * There seems to be a mysterious hang when
> > shutting down ReactOS in
> >  qemu.  I've seen it personally and heard reports of it, but since it
> >  locks up qemu so bad you can't free the mouse, no one has gotten a
> >  trace (that I am aware of).
> >   
> >  
>  I don't have a hang...I used to have a crash in shell32... but now I
>  have introduced a bug which makes the stack trace printing inside
>  kernel32 crash, which causes a bsod. And yeah, I'm working on fixing
>  this regression. Note however that there is a shutdown crash which I
>  didn't cause though. Reverting prior to my changes should get you a
>  trace.
>
> >   * Gunnar's win32k changes introduced several
> > bugs, many of which were
> >  fixed, but I still feel unsure about others that may be hiding.
> >   
> >  
>  Agreed, there needs to be done a LOT of testing.
>
> >   * Hartmut fixed the MP build. See, I didn't
> > even know that was broken.
> >   
> >  
>  We all need to get VMWare 5.5 and start MP testing :)
>
> >   I would like to freeze the tree for 72 hours,
> > over the weekend,
> >  allowing bugfixes only.  I think we all need to grab a fresh copy and
> >  run it under every platform we have, checking all the options.
> >   
> >  
>  I totally agree.
>
> >   According to the rules set forth, I need three
> > developers.  Who agrees
> >  to a trunk freeze?
> >   
> >  
>  I do.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
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I agree.