Re: [ros-dev] 0.2.7?

[reactos]

Good idea, but ones a month is to frequent, people will get tired of testing new versions
that they can't see any difference between. I think it has to be focust releases where
something actually can be tested or seen, a feature not just read about in a change-log,
everyone doesn't read the changelog. 

By the way, to be able to get people test the right thing when a new versin is released,
we should have a welcome-screen packed with information about things changed since last
release and so forth, this in a way that people can know how to test the new feature. This
welcome screen could be a page in the WIKI so every developer easy can add what they want
the testers to try out and how to do it. I know this opens for another problem, we need a
browser to do that, can we add the mozilla-com plugin to the release? Or can we include
another one? 


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From: WaxDragon waxdragon(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:13:29 +0200
To: ReactOS Development List ros-dev(a)reactos.com
Subject: [ros-dev] 0.2.7?

>   I would like to see a 0.2.7 release soon.  0.3.0 is
> getting closer
>  every day, but it's not there yet IMHO.  On the other hand, we have
>  had lots of big patches from Mr. Ionescu (and others), major changes,
>  go in and appear to be stable since we have released 0.2.6.  I would
>  like to see us have another release in this lull, instead of having a
>  release right after committing a pile of patches *right before* the
>  release like we did with 0.2.6.
>  
>  I know it's been less than a month since 0.2.6, but my the time we
>  branch and do a couple RC's, it will have been over a month.
>  
>  I just have this feeling that we miss some regressions from release to
>  release, since alot of us just use HEAD on a regular basis?
>  
>  Just my $0.2US
>  WD
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[Michael B. Trausch]

reactos wrote:
>   
>  Good idea, but ones a month is to frequent, people will get tired of
>  testing new versions that they can't see any difference between. I
>  think it has to be focust releases where something actually can be
>  tested or seen, a feature not just read about in a change-log,
>  everyone doesn't read the changelog.
>  
>  By the way, to be able to get people test the right thing when a new
>  versin is released, we should have a welcome-screen packed with
>  information about things changed since last release and so forth,
>  this in a way that people can know how to test the new feature. This
>  welcome screen could be a page in the WIKI so every developer easy
>  can add what they want the testers to try out and how to do it. I
>  know this opens for another problem, we need a browser to do that,
>  can we add the mozilla-com plugin to the release? Or can we include
>  another one?
>   
Uh... Networking?

I know at the very least *I* haven't seen ping working yet... granted I
haven't tried CVS or anything lately since I've not even had the time...

Networking support at the very least should be a staple for most overly
popular cards before you think about trying to require a web page be
displayed for something.  Instead, put a static page on the CD that gets
copied to the installed system.

	- Mike

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[Gedi]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:

>  Uh... Networking?
>
> I know at the very least *I* haven't seen ping working yet... 
>  
Networking has been up and running since before christmas now.
Along with the Mozilla control, you can now browse the web with ROS' 
built in ibrowser, or use something like dillo.
There are many other programs running too, email, IRC too name but a few.

>  Networking support at the very least should be a staple
> for most overly
> popular cards before you think about trying to require a web page be
> displayed for something.  Instead, put a static page on the CD that gets
> copied to the installed system.
>   
>  
It's still not fully stable, card support is not great and it's only 
configurable through regedit at the moment.
However it's all being worked on. Arty has done a fantastic job so far.

Ged.

[Michael B. Trausch]

Gedi wrote:
>  
>  It's still not fully stable, card support is not great and it's only
>  configurable through regedit at the moment.
>  However it's all being worked on. Arty has done a fantastic job so far.
>   
Okay, that's probably why the one machine I did test it on didn't work
then.  :-)  I know it doesn't work with the 3com in my other system.
However, I don't play that deep in Regedit, so...

	- Mike

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