[ros-dev] Roadmap I'm sticking to

[Alexey Komarov]

What about uniata/scsi, usb drivers and hal?


WBR, Alexey Komarov.

08.04.2010 16:54, Aleksey Bragin пишет:
> Hello,
> yesterday we had a usual rant in #reactos-dev regarding organization,
> teaming and development issues, and I explained how I see it. I think
> explaining and discussing here would be beneficial.
>
> I won't spend your time explaining how I came to this roadmap, I will go
> right to it. This roadmap is mainly usage-oriented and doesn't cover the
> kernel (it has its own one).
>
> * Finish wine-based subsystem ("arwinss"), fixing all internal (absent
> in Wine and/or trunk) bugs.
> Milestone 1: user32 and gdi32 known to work and support at least all the
> apps listed in the Wine app compat database.
> * Test as many as possible apps known to work in Wine and determine
> those which fail.
> * Fix failing components (kernel32, ntdll, kernel, CSR, non-synced DLLs,
> etc).
> Milestone 2: ReactOS supporting quite wide amount of applications,
> including major apps like MS Office suites, Open Office, CAD systems,
> Adobe products.
> Decision point: Because other Win32 components are proven to work,
> NT-alike user32, gdi32 and win32k development may be boosted, testing
> simplified.
> * Implement filesystem drivers, using fastfat_new as a universal
> skeleton for FS drivers. Use ntfs3g library and that skeleton to develop
> an NTFS IFS driver.
> Milestone 3: ReactOS with NTFS support (quite important for end users,
> thus separated into a standalone milestone).
> * Total rewrite of networking, using NT's one as a model.
> Milestone 4: ReactOS with a rock-stable networking. Ability to host
> database servers, web and FTP servers.
> * Release 1.0 and profit ;)
>
>
> So that's what I'm sticking to so far. I don't expect everyone to agree,
> but if more people are involved, achieving these milestones will happen
> faster. Also, they don't really have to go in a sequence, all of that
> may be done simulteneously (e.g. filesystem drivers must be developed
> against Windows 2003; kernel32 and ntdll could be fixed first using
> winetests without waiting for arwinss to be complete; networking could
> be again tested in existing ReactOS and Windows).
>
> Comments, improvements are welcome.
>
> WBR,
> Aleksey Bragin.
>
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