Re: [ros-dev] I'm back

[Aleksey Bragin]

Great, thanks a lot to all of you who replied (those who don't still  
need to :)). I'm going to review current problems and compile a list  
of the next release blockers based on that.


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Aleksey Bragin wrote:

>   	Hello,
>  I'm back from my vacation which took part in Sweden this time (not
>  counting a day passing through Finland). I had a pleasure of meeting
>  Stefan Ginsberg ("Stefan100"), Magnus Olsen ("GreatLord"), Simon and
>  his wife, and of course Jan Kinander ("JaixBly") who drove some
>  hundreds kilometers from his city to meet all of us. I met all those
>  persons for the first time in RL except for Stefan, who I met earlier
>  this year in Brussels.
>
>  After a perfectly guided (mostly by Magnus ;)) tour through the Old
>  City (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm, we made the first ReactOS discussion
>  attempt in a very nice cafe at the island where Vasa museum is. We
>  talked mostly about the history of ReactOS project, how I ended up in
>  this project, what were the most problematic moments of its life and
>  development ("Hartmut incident", etc), persons involved in ReactOS at
>  various points in time. After Jan's parking ticked started expiring
>  Simon suggested to move into his office to continue the talk.
>
>  We logged in to #reactos from the office, under GreatLord's nickname
>  (it was a very unusual feeling when you type things, hit enter, and
>  it appears as "<GreatLord> ..."), and we all together discussed
>  future ways of ReactOS progress, possible commercial usage, possible
>  support, stability and compatibility as usual, products which could
>  utilize ReactOS and many many more things.
>
>  In the end, we shoot a video introducing all this "conference"
>  participants, and it actually shows "Magnus in action" for the first
>  time ever. The video seems rather black, and probably has poor
>  quality (I haven't transferred it to my PC yet) but it should
>  definately be interesting. I will edit it and put on youtube asap.
>
>  It was really great to meet all of you!
>
>
>  Now, to the actual development part of the email (why it ended up in
>  ros-dev and not ros-general). After I left, I saw number of commits
>  significantly decreased, and only some 94 commits were done in my
>  absence (roughly 6 per day). Quality matters though, not quantity!
>
>  It's time to think about stabilizing what has been done and preparing
>  a new release (without arwinss, if someone wonders).
>
>  1. Could someone of the testing team please provide me (here) a list
>  of regressions (with corresponding bug numbers) introduced with
>  recent ARMMM and other changes?
>  2. What is everyone up to right now, what unfinished work you have,
>  what work you are about to finish, what you want and what you don't
>  want to go to the next release? No need to write time consuming
>  paragraphs of course, just provide a very quick overview / status so
>  I and everyone else has idea what you are doing now and what to  
>  expect.
>  3. What's the most up to date GCC 4.4 status, estimates, problems
>  (bug # would be enough).
>
>
>  Thanks,
>  Aleksey Bragin.