Re: [ros-dev] Roadmap I'm sticking to

[Alexey Komarov]

What about uniata/scsi, usb drivers and hal?


WBR, Alexey Komarov.

08.04.2010 16:54, Aleksey Bragin пишет:
>   Hello,
>  yesterday we had a usual rant in #reactos-dev regarding organization,
>  teaming and development issues, and I explained how I see it. I think
>  explaining and discussing here would be beneficial.
>
>  I won't spend your time explaining how I came to this roadmap, I will go
>  right to it. This roadmap is mainly usage-oriented and doesn't cover the
>  kernel (it has its own one).
>
>  * Finish wine-based subsystem ("arwinss"), fixing all internal (absent
>  in Wine and/or trunk) bugs.
>  Milestone 1: user32 and gdi32 known to work and support at least all the
>  apps listed in the Wine app compat database.
>  * Test as many as possible apps known to work in Wine and determine
>  those which fail.
>  * Fix failing components (kernel32, ntdll, kernel, CSR, non-synced DLLs,
>  etc).
>  Milestone 2: ReactOS supporting quite wide amount of applications,
>  including major apps like MS Office suites, Open Office, CAD systems,
>  Adobe products.
>  Decision point: Because other Win32 components are proven to work,
>  NT-alike user32, gdi32 and win32k development may be boosted, testing
>  simplified.
>  * Implement filesystem drivers, using fastfat_new as a universal
>  skeleton for FS drivers. Use ntfs3g library and that skeleton to develop
>  an NTFS IFS driver.
>  Milestone 3: ReactOS with NTFS support (quite important for end users,
>  thus separated into a standalone milestone).
>  * Total rewrite of networking, using NT's one as a model.
>  Milestone 4: ReactOS with a rock-stable networking. Ability to host
>  database servers, web and FTP servers.
>  * Release 1.0 and profit ;)
>
>
>  So that's what I'm sticking to so far. I don't expect everyone to agree,
>  but if more people are involved, achieving these milestones will happen
>  faster. Also, they don't really have to go in a sequence, all of that
>  may be done simulteneously (e.g. filesystem drivers must be developed
>  against Windows 2003; kernel32 and ntdll could be fixed first using
>  winetests without waiting for arwinss to be complete; networking could
>  be again tested in existing ReactOS and Windows).
>
>  Comments, improvements are welcome.
>
>  WBR,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
>
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