The project requires anyone who wants commit access to be able to communicate at least passably in English. All commit messages are in English and need to be understandable.

Jira is not used for asking questions, it is only used for reporting and tracking bugs or work being done by the developers. The reason no one's answered your questions is probably because no one can understand what you're asking. You've been extremely vague on what it is you want to know, or what i...

Probably around $8-9K on the low end.

Reverse engineering Windows components to learn about them is perfectly fine. De-compiling Windows components to directly put said decompiled code into ReactOS is a copyright violation and illegal and will piss us off monumentally if someone attempts it. The majority of Linux kernel developers are n...

You're assuming it's the same people doing the same things. Pretty much none of the developers do any translation work. Any time you see them applying a translation fix, it's usually a patch that someone else wrote and they're just doing routine maintenance.

Just a general note, the couple of posts we've gotten from 'new' accounts are from spambots. What they're doing now is trying to embed links into the posts that they quote in place of say user names and post links. However over those links and it becomes immediately apparent what they are doing. Or ...

1) Take this discussion to a different thread.

2) You don't determine differences between revisions by looking at diffs of binary blobs, you look at source code changes.

I don't think Dian's bothered building with GCC since he started using windbg in order to debug the driver.

That's not a livecd, Victor.

We do not test livecds while preparing a release, since whether a livecd works or not does not tell us anything useful about application compatibility.

Your points were answered multiple times, Vincent. And yet you keep repeating them. This creates the impression that you either did not understand previous responses or you're ignoring them. If you don't understand, ask questions. If you do understand, there is no need to keep repeating requests.

Daniel, might want to watch your blood pressure there. Vincent, you need to read much more carefully and be a lot more explicit in your posts. The way you worded one of your earlier posts implies you want 16bit applications bundled in ReactOS itself. That will never happen. The posts that you wrote ...

If that IRC client was built using VS 2013 or newer by default the compiled PE does not work on XP, you have to manually specify targeting XP.

If it works on Windows (XP or 2003) and doesn't on ReactOS, it's our fault, not the application's.

Actual release candidate now uploaded.

Not quite true. XP SP3 basically shifted XP over to the 2k3 codebase.