[ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again

[Steven Edwards]

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
0.3.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

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



	
		
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