[ros-dev] Roadmap / List of tasks / Attn. all developers

[Aleksey Bragin]

	Hello!
In an effort to put ReactOS development into higher scales, I would  
like to announce that I am creating a global list of all possible  
development tasks, broken down into modules/sections/etc. By the time  
all tasks in this list are fully completed, ReactOS would result in  
transition to a beta-stage and bumping version number to >= 0.5 (so  
you understand how big this todolist will be).

This list would be a base to the global ReactOS Roadmap which is  
going to show a current status of reactos, expected times before  
future releases, and what future releases will contain exactly.

And the most important: It makes every programmer willing to  
participate in the project to find a task he feels familiar with,  
actually do it, and see how it advances the project. All the way  
before, the only really managed part of development was fixing bugs,  
because Bugzilla is storing all bugs descriptions/patches/ 
assignations/etc. Now, similar thing will come in help to the general  
development.

Creating such a list is quite a hard task, and it can't be done by an  
individual, so:

Attention all ReactOS Developers, please! Your word is very valuable  
here! Please, compile a list of tasks you think ReactOS needs and  
send it here as a reply to this message (I will put a preliminary  
draft of what I already compiled so far too somewhere in the wiki).  
Each task should be a clearly outlined work if possible, however all  
information is important so you can add something like "//TODO: Add  
more details about this task later" too.

Example of a task considered as "good" to me:
- Boot manager
-- Make Loader Parameter Block compatible with Windows XP one

Example of a less exact task, but which is still "good"
- Boot manager
-- Make boot process conforming to NTLDR boot process, so that  
FreeLdr can boot Windows without NTLDR.

Example of a "bad" task
- NTOSKRNL
-- Improve kernel


Thank you for the collaboration, I know this maybe a quite hard to  
do, but it's the first steps of an effort to get development to the  
speed and quality we never had before. Other things to mention are  
continuos integration system, regression testing frameworks, etc, etc.


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.