[ros-dev] April Meeting Minutes

Fri Apr 29 12:21:59 UTC 2011

Hi,

why have I been marked as present whereas I explicitly wrote here that I would be away? And I was effectively away...
Regarding my ZNC, you can see that: 1 - parlyline shows I'm off, away message shows I'm off, idle shows I'm away since a while.
Quotation:
[14:20] ==  away     : Offline
[14:20] ==  idle     : 4 days 13 hours 39 minutes 30 seconds [connected: Sun Apr 17 12:38:48 2011]

Regards,
P. Schweitzer

"ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.org> wrote on Fri, April 29th, 2011, 12:38 PM:
> April Meeting Minutes
> 
> 2011-04-28
> 20:05 UTC
> Freenode, #reactos-meeting
> 
> Participants
> ============
> 
> Adam Stachowicz
> Aleksey Bragin
> Amine Khaldi
> Art Yerkes
> Daniel Reimer
> Gabriel Ilardi
> Ged Murphy
> Giannis Adamopoulos
> Gregor Schneider
> Hervé Poussineau
> James Tabor
> Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
> Johannes Anderwald
> Maciej Białas
> Matthias Kupfer
> Olaf Siejka
> Pierre Schweitzer
> Rafał Harabień
> Samuel Serapion
> Timo Kreuzer
> Victor Martinez
> Ziliang Guo
> 
> Proceedings
> ===========
> 
> ○ Meeting called to order at 20:05 UTC by Aleksey Bragin
> 
> ○ Point 1 in the agenda: GSoC status update
> ===========================================
> 
> ■ Amine mentioned that ReactOS has 6 slots this year, and that a great 
> care was put in the accepted projects selection with focus on UI and 
> stability, with the goal to release 0.4 shortly after a successful GSoC. 
> He also mentioned that the students will be granted commit access to 
> official branches, so that the community can follow their progress. Ged 
> and Amine asked the present members to do their best to help the 
> students in any way, not leaving them only to their mentors, and asked 
> the students not to hesitate to request help from anyone.
> 
> ○ Point 2: Current ReactOS work
> ===============================
> 
> ■ 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.
> 
> ○ Point 3: Action List proposal
> ===============================
> 
> ■ Amine referred to 
> http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2011-April/014148.html for 
> context, and asked the members whether they have any 
> comments/suggestions about it. Nothing came up, so we proceeded to the 
> next point of this meeting.
> 
> ○ Point 4: Status of the upcoming LinuxTag event preparations
> =============================================================
> 
> ■ Matthias mentioned that the booth is booked and tables and furniture 
> are ordered/reserved. Due to the lack of interest we have only 4 persons 
> as booth personnel. He will ask whether or not we need a day in advance 
> for preparation of booth, and he prefers to setup the booth on first 
> day, as long we don't have to set up a lot of things. Therefore, he 
> hasn't booked a hotel yet. His preferred hotel is too expensive, and as 
> long as we have some changes in persons he thinks it's easier to book 
> single rooms with a price around 50-70€ per night.
> ■ A brief discussion went on between Victor, Matthias and Gregor about 
> booking, sharing rooms, what to bring...etc
> 
> ○ Point 5: Website revamp. Current status, who is working, who is 
> willing to help
> =================================================================================
> 
> ■ Ziliang mentioned that he's porting content over, trimming a lot of 
> stuff in terms of the 'About' and 'Why ReactOS' sections. He merged some 
> parts into the dev FAQ from the general FAQ, and got the location of the 
> Drupal install from Danny, so that he can start dropping in test modules 
> which will allow us to test main page layouts.
> ■ The rest of the discussion was just a reiteration of what's already in 
> the website revamp collaborative document.
> 
> ○ Meeting ended at 23:10 UTC.
> 
> ○ Minutes submitted by Amine Khaldi.
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