[ros-dev] Time for another change

[Gge]

Aleksey Bragin a écrit :
>     Hi,
> thanks for the faith in me, I will do my best in order to get the 
> project to the good future in the shortest possible time.
> 
> I have lots of plans - improve and advance the roadmap (I have nice 
> ideas since I have some background in scheduling, planning and 
> management, I will try to apply my knowledge here), finding commercial 
> applications for reactos and its modules and subprojects, so the project 
> will get some funding, collaboration with other projects - this is 
> always important.
> 
> And of course as a developer I still have lots of interesting things to 
> do too: continue the work on svn server's abilities (provide 
> per-revision iso's, look into continuos integration systems in the 
> future too), regression testing to ensure both compatibilty and 
> stability too, ntoskrnl+bootloader changes and improvements in the boot 
> phase, drivers of course, also i18n support is of a priority for me, and 
> certainly auditing the source code.
> 
> Personally I have very much respect in Steven's actions as being the PC 
> - in addition to what he stated in his email I want to add that he 
> introduced periodical Status Reports, and some other interesting things.
> 
> I will keep and improve if possible the level of work Steven was doing.
> 
> 
> With the best regards,
> Aleksey Bragin.
> 
> 
> On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to
>> nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until
>> a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the
>> amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have
>> many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others
>> have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that
>> given the current state of things we are going in the right direction.
>> I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership
>> needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up,
>> providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have
>> been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
>> the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
>> and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
>> system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
>> filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.
>>
>> I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
>> of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
>> it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
>> our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
>> support from outside the project would be much higher.
>>
>> At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful
>> failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows
>> replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely
>> used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and
>> dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will
>> be at some point but not during my time of being really active.
>>
>> In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms
>> plans, most of which have been a success:
>>
>> US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and
>> provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the
>> project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law
>> Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in
>> terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats
>> not going to happen any time soon.
>>
>> Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the
>> Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it
>> has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains
>> hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by
>> developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such
>> as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in
>> to the Wine tree.
>>
>> Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however
>> we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and
>> Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting
>> Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will
>> provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a
>> bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already.
>>
>> Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had
>> heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of
>> the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD
>> developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our
>> project, its goals and future.
>>
>> Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to
>> me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen
>> fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions
>> which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card
>> drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of
>> getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have
>> developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as
>> the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been
>> ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine
>> teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of
>> information for educational purposes.
>>
>> So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving
>> however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my
>> spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to
>> people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I
>> can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit
>> Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am
>> willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up.
>> I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't
>> know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email
>> me directly.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- 
>> Steven Edwards
>>
>> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
>> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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Good luck Aleksey and thanks Steven for your great contribution.
I'll do my best to continue as reactos tester.

Best Regards
GGe