Hello all,
Here are the minutes from the last ReactOS meeting on the 27th of October
2011:
20:20 Aleksey Bragin called the meeting to order
- Aleksey Bragin shared a video interview about ReactOS at
http://alenapopova.ru/egov/react-os-kraudsorsing-pri-sozdanii-operacionnoj-sistemy.html- Aleksey Bragin stated the meeting agenda as being:
1. Website revamp status
2. CMake adoption
3. Release status
1. Website Revamp
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- Amine Khaldi started on the Website revamp status and stated that
unfortunately nothing has progressed since the last meeting because of
aross, superdog and nisky being extremely busy.
- He also stated that Aleksey has yet to commit the bridges needed and
that the actual milestone is the theme (ie design/layout that matches
the current website), after which devs will need to investigate phpbb
issue.
- Aleksey Bragin added that almost the only thing left is the theme
and with it progress could be made fast to the website engine and have
a test run with real data.
- He also stated that all details could be provided to anyone
motivated enough with HTML/CSS.
- Matthias Kupfer said he could support HTML/CSS around Christmas, but
not earlier.
- Aleksey Bragin asked Maciej Bialas if he could assist in theming.
- Maciej Bialas said he could, and added that he tried to create a
simple theme first resembling the current one, and that aross said he
could have done better by using some Drupal modules Maciej was not
aware of.
- Aleksey Bragin stated that a simple theme would suffice for now and
a better one can always be done later.
- Ziliang Guo asked about user and forum transfer status.
- Aleksey Bragin replied that the forum is phpbb and therefore easily
transferable
- Ziliang Guo asked about the reason for sticking with phpbb.
- Amine Khaldi and Aleksey Bragin stated that it was for the sake of
easier migration (ie migrate one thing at a time not everything at
once)
- Maciej Bialas stated that one downside to this was tedious
integration with phpbb.
- Aleksey Bragin pointed out that playground.reactos.org (with its
intact database) will be what the new main site looks like when the
switch is made.
- Ziliang Guo said he can start trying to add content the coming weekend.
- Amine Khaldi asked Ziliang Guo to keep everything minimalistic.
- Aleksey Bragin moved the meeting on to the CMake adoption topic on the agenda.
2. CMake adoption
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- Aleksey Bragin took this chance to welcome Alex Ionescu back to the
ReactOS project.
- Amine Khaldi stated that Alex Ionescu stumbled upon a way to
separate debug info from binaries, in a pdb similar way, using
objcopy. He also mentioned that Alex helped by fixing two bugs in