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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[Magnus Olsen]

we already have some part of directx working in reactos
the graphic system of directx like directdraw and directd3d will maybe come
after 0.3 but I am planing gettin the win32k ready for d3d
after that I think it is egunt with dx support for 0.3

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Sent: den 17 November 2005 05:34
Subject: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again
> 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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[Richard Campbell]

I'd like to recommend that releases after 0.3 be focused on stability.  
If an application makes a bad call/isn't compatible/whatever it 
shouldn't take down the whole system.

Magnus Olsen wrote:
> we already have some part of directx working in reactos
> the graphic system of directx like directdraw and directd3d will maybe come
> after 0.3 but I am planing gettin the win32k ready for d3d
> after that I think it is egunt with dx support for 0.3
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
> Sent: den 17 November 2005 05:34
> Subject: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again
> > 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
> >
> > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
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[David Johnson]

I am waiting with bated breth for 0.3.
I have a test system that is waiting for USB. As soon as USB is working I
will put ROS on my real hardware for testing.

I hope this will be a help to the group.

On 11/17/05, Richard Campbell [e-mail] wrote:
> I'd like to recommend that releases after 0.3 be focused on stability.
> If an application makes a bad call/isn't compatible/whatever it
> shouldn't take down the whole system.
>
> Magnus Olsen wrote:
> > we already have some part of directx working in reactos
> > the graphic system of directx like directdraw and directd3d will maybe
>
> come
> > after 0.3 but I am planing gettin the win32k ready for d3d
> > after that I think it is egunt with dx support for 0.3
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Sent: den 17 November 2005 05:34
> > Subject: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005
> > > http://mail.yahoo.com
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Ros-dev mailing list
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[Bernd Blaauw]

David Johnson schreef:
> I am waiting with bated breth for 0.3.
> I have a test system that is waiting for USB. As soon as USB is 
> working I will put ROS on my real hardware for testing.

you could always try an ISO from:
http://svn.reactos.org/

Would "USB working" also mean "boot from USB" ? Not even MS allows this.
Sadly no PC BIOS supports "boot from FireWire", like Apples do. Guess 
we'd need LinuxBIOS for that, as current motherboard manufacturers don't 
want to pay AMI/Phoenix/Award for including the "boot from firewire" module.

Bernd

[David Hinz]

Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
> David Johnson schreef:
> > I am waiting with bated breth for 0.3.
> > I have a test system that is waiting for USB. As soon as USB is 
> > working I will put ROS on my real hardware for testing.
>
> you could always try an ISO from:
> http://svn.reactos.org/
>
> Would "USB working" also mean "boot from USB" ? Not even MS allows this.
> Sadly no PC BIOS supports "boot from FireWire", like Apples do. Guess 
> we'd need LinuxBIOS for that, as current motherboard manufacturers 
> don't want to pay AMI/Phoenix/Award for including the "boot from 
> firewire" module.

The thing with the LinuxBIOS sounds interesting, I heard about it some 
time ago.
Do you know, if it is working on current mainboards and where I can get 
some more infos about this topic?
Maybe we could create a BIOS replacement out of freeloader, this would 
enormously increase the boot-process...
> Bernd

Greets,

David Hinz

[Bernd Blaauw]

David Hinz schreef:
> The thing with the LinuxBIOS sounds interesting, I heard about it some 
> time ago.
> Do you know, if it is working on current mainboards and where I can 
> get some more infos about this topic?
> Maybe we could create a BIOS replacement out of freeloader, this would 
> enormously increase the boot-process...

guess w're going a bit offtopic.

Just like ReactOS, the LinuxBIOS project has a huge WIKI (as frontpage 
even):
http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page

if ReactOS will be coded properly, it should be able to run either under 
LinuxBIOS natively, or using Linuxbios + ADLO
(some Bochs modules on top of LinuxBIOS).

Interesting thing ofcourse would be LinuxBIOS + XEN (+hardware 
virtualisation support) + any (compatible) operating system.

I'm following progress of both ReactOS and LinuxBIOS, but am not a coder 
at all.
This LinuxBIOS thingie seems to be in development on AMD K8 platforms 
nowadays. Sadly, there's no 440BX port,
otherwise it could act as the BIOS for an emulator (even VMware allows 
external BIOS files for their emulated 440BX)

Bernd

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: 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

We set some goals for 0.3.0:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/0.3.x/0.3.0. I suggest we stick to
those goals.
> 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?

0.2.8 was released on 29 Oct, we should aim for a release by the end of
December (perhaps branching by mid December, but that's up to the TC <g>).
If by then all the 0.3.0 goals have been met, we call it 0.3.0, otherwise we
call it 0.2.9.
I do have good hope that all the 0.3.0 goals can be achieved before the end
of the year. As for my own work, it seems to depend mostly on how often
trunk is broken. Of the last 4 weeks, I spent at least 2 and probably 3 on
debugging show-stopper problems (unable to boot, no networking etc)
unrelated to Firefox.

GvG

[James Tabor]

Hi,
Steven Edwards wrote:
> 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

0.2.9-rcX to 0.2.9
> 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

Yes, these are show stoppers, so to keep the public happy we are going to need to release RCx's
before 0.2.9.
> 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

8^D
James