[ros-dev] State of the 0.2.9 branch

[WaxDragon]

Well, he's the tentative blocker list:

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1026

By far the biggest source of complaints.  I don't mind it just being
disabled for 0.2.9, as GvG suggests.

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1099
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1097
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1107
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1116

That's it really.  I tested most apps on my testing cd (Abiword, Gvim,
OO..) and they either worked the same, or had progressed.  I didn't
spend too much time testing network apps, due to the FastMutex bug
arty is looking at, but ncftp worked for me.

On the other hand, a great deal of long standing issues have been
resolved. Page files, wallpaper persistence, environment variable
dialog.

The only real issue I've seemingly encountered is a registry/shutdown
issue.  Sometimes I cannot get the page file setting to stick, and get
crashes on shutdown. Since this is new code and does progress
shutdown, I'm hesitant to block 0.2.9 due to those issues.

Please discuss. Unless someone disagrees with these blockers, I will
update their severities tomorrow.


On 12/11/05, WaxDragon <waxdragon at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the tenative blocker list, I just haven't sent it out and
> adjusted the bugs. I was trying to get a good test finished before
> sending out the list.   I should be able to later tonight.
>
> On 12/11/05, Ge van Geldorp <gvg at reactos.org> wrote:
> > At the moment, there's one blocker bug registered, 1107: Opening a Command
> > Prompt (console) window causes the desktop to hang.
> >
> > A lot of networking apps crash, all due to the same bug. Arty is working on
> > that one.

If he can get it fixed soon, great, but I don't think I'll hold up the
release for it.

> >
> > On each boot, I have to get rid of 5 device install screens. I'm not
> > complaining, I understand PnP is a work in progress, but if nobody objects
> > I'll change the code in the branch to never pop up the device install
> > screens.

It's a blocker.

> >
> > Last item is perhaps a bit controversial. I don't like the huge icons in the
> > start menu. It also makes the start menu not fit in 640x480. Can we please
> > go back to smaller icons?

+1

> >
> > Other than these items (only 1 of them serious as far as I'm concerned) I
> > like the branch and I believe it will become a good release.
> >
> > GvG


Thanks for your work, GvG.

WD