[ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again

[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