April Meeting Minutes - Ros-dev

29 Apr 2011

April Meeting Minutes

2011-04-28
20:05 UTC
Freenode, #reactos-meeting

Participants
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Adam Stachowicz
Aleksey Bragin
Amine Khaldi
Art Yerkes
Daniel Reimer
Gabriel Ilardi
Ged Murphy
Giannis Adamopoulos
Gregor Schneider
Hervé Poussineau
James Tabor
Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
Johannes Anderwald
Maciej Białas
Matthias Kupfer
Olaf Siejka
Pierre Schweitzer
Rafał Harabień
Samuel Serapion
Timo Kreuzer
Victor Martinez
Ziliang Guo

Proceedings
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○ Meeting called to order at 20:05 UTC by Aleksey Bragin

○ Point 1 in the agenda: GSoC status update
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■ Amine mentioned that ReactOS has 6 slots this year, and that a great 
care was put in the accepted projects selection with focus on UI and 
stability, with the goal to release 0.4 shortly after a successful GSoC. 
He also mentioned that the students will be granted commit access to 
official branches, so that the community can follow their progress. Ged 
and Amine asked the present members to do their best to help the 
students in any way, not leaving them only to their mentors, and asked 
the students not to hesitate to request help from anyone.

○ Point 2: Current ReactOS work
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■ Amine: GSoC related tasks and coordination, CMake branch regression 
tracking and fixing, with the help of Igor and Rafał, still into the 
website revamp and the ideas around it.
■ Olaf: He has just updated VBox testbot to VBox 4.0.6, and with the 
great help of Fireball and hackdog he finally got sysreg for it done as 
well. Olaf also mentioned that our stdio problem of sysreg turned into 
another less visible one, VBox serial output problem, typically for 
heavy text output on virtual com via pipes.. The log is very good, but 
sometimes short parts of text are relocated, like in 
http://www.reactos.org/testman/detail.php?id=1763684. As a result of 
these efforts, test repetitions should be more rare. He also suggested 
to try to run it via com0com once Fireball signs the 64bit driver. 
Another thing Olaf was working on is trying to shorten the patch queue 
(http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Bug_Filters) and separate WIP patches from 
the ready for review patches, and he also began committing translations.
■ Matthias: He is working on patches and minor bug-fixes, with focus on 
win32 and win32k (espacially alt-tab). All the other ReactOS related 
tasks have nothing to do with developing.
■ Gregor: He mentioned that he doesn't have as much time as last year, 
since he works full time now, so he can only offer to help cleaning up 
bugzilla from time to time, committing patches, reviewing etc. Expect 
patches to random components from him, but he can't offer much irc 
activity. He's going through application patches currently.
■ Daniel: Not much time lately. He still hopes to get a new RosBE done 
in short term.
■ Javier: He tries to introduce new people to #reactos-es, and plans to 
work more on translations and to also blog about ReactOS in Spanish.
■ Samuel: He is already working on secur32 and started msv1_0.
■ Aleksey: He's trying to finish the ldr rewrite and commit it. Two 
blocker bugs are preventing him to do this: the first being the DLLs 
registration failures in the 2nd stage, and the other one is a random 
Firefox installer hang during file unpacking. When that's done, he plans 
to move on to organize the massive winesync of the tree, simultaneously 
trying to fix the remaining heap regressions (with someone?). The main 
problem is that he's traveling quite often during this time range, and 
thus can't work on ReactOS as he usually did, so any problem gets longer 
to solve. He will also continue working on arwinss after those tasks 
above are complete.
■ Gabriel: He keeps the forum clean on a daily basis (Spam mainly), and 
he also does small updates to the wiki, Bugzilla maintenance, committing 
translations and small patches, testing ReactOS and patches. He also 
added the svn log to the front page of the website and is currently 
giving some support to a guy that was interested in using ReactOS in his 
company.
■ Jim: He's mainly working on bug-fixing, especially keyboard messages 
and message in general.
■ Rafał: He's currently studying for his exams in May, and fixing random 
bugs from bugzilla during his breaks. He'll eventually help in CMake.
■ Giannis: He started researching his GSoC project and doing some tests. 
In the meantime he's trying to sort out any work that he started lately 
but not completed.
■ Johannes: He's mainly working on USB, planning to reach Mike's 
(mjmartin) driver state in the next few days, as most of the code 
written now is based on his implementation. He mentioned that today was 
good day for USB as lots of code got working. His initial goal is to get 
mass storage working with Win XP (thats the bulk and control transfers), 
then jump to hub driver and later the USB class driver, but he couldn't 
really say how long this will take.
■ Timo: He is focusing on his GSoC project.
■ Victor: He was busy this month with real life, but he's trying to 
create a Testing Forum Team, he hopes to start on it in the upcoming 
days. He also helps with the website revamp, and he's now preparing for 
the trip to Berlin for the LinuxTage event.

○ Point 3: Action List proposal
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■ Amine referred to 
http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2011-April/014148.html for 
context, and asked the members whether they have any 
comments/suggestions about it. Nothing came up, so we proceeded to the 
next point of this meeting.

○ Point 4: Status of the upcoming LinuxTag event preparations
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■ Matthias mentioned that the booth is booked and tables and furniture 
are ordered/reserved. Due to the lack of interest we have only 4 persons 
as booth personnel. He will ask whether or not we need a day in advance 
for preparation of booth, and he prefers to setup the booth on first 
day, as long we don't have to set up a lot of things. Therefore, he 
hasn't booked a hotel yet. His preferred hotel is too expensive, and as 
long as we have some changes in persons he thinks it's easier to book 
single rooms with a price around 50-70€ per night.
■ A brief discussion went on between Victor, Matthias and Gregor about 
booking, sharing rooms, what to bring...etc

○ Point 5: Website revamp. Current status, who is working, who is 
willing to help
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■ Ziliang mentioned that he's porting content over, trimming a lot of 
stuff in terms of the 'About' and 'Why ReactOS' sections. He merged some 
parts into the dev FAQ from the general FAQ, and got the location of the 
Drupal install from Danny, so that he can start dropping in test modules 
which will allow us to test main page layouts.
■ The rest of the discussion was just a reiteration of what's already in 
the website revamp collaborative document.

○ Meeting ended at 23:10 UTC.

○ Minutes submitted by Amine Khaldi.