○ 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.
