Introduction:
I am Saloni B.Tech.(3rd year), Computer Science and Engineering(CSE) student of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, India. I have been selected for Google Summer of Code 2021 to work with Haiku on the project Improvements to clang-format and clang-tidy to format code according to haiku coding guidelines. My mentors are Preetpal Kaur and Adrien Destugues.
About my project:
Haiku has its own coding standards which describe how the code should be formatted. Haiku-format is a tool that reformats code according to Haiku coding style but it is not giving desired results. So, we need to format the code such that when this code is run on Haiku the coding style of code gets updated according to haiku guidelines, but it has to be compiled on the developer machine and then run manually.
About me
I am Xiaojie Yi, currently majoring in Data Science and Big Data technology in Central China Normal University, China. I am happy to be selected as GSoC student this year and can work for Haiku to get more XFS filesystem support done. My mentors are CruxBox and Rene.
When I decided to choose this project at the end of March, I knew very little about how everything works. Thanks for everyone’s help here! And I have finally got some basic things about git, gerrit, os, and filesystems(especially xfs). I will do more this summer and it would be challenging but enjoyable to learn new knowledge.
This report covers revisions hrev54979-hrev55069.
HaikuDepot
Andrew Lindesay continues his work on HaikuDepot, fixing a glitch in redrawing
of featured packages. He completed the removal of the custom list class, so
HaikuDepot uses standard container classes from C++ or Haiku APIs. This makes
the code more similar to other parts of Haiku and easier to maintain.
With this rework done, Andrew is now working on new features. The first of these
is a counter for views of packages, which will allow to imrpove the way we decide
which packages are “featured” in HaikuDepot home screen.
As you boot your first non-Windows, non-Unix system, you may have a moment when you wonder if this thing is going to work. It’s not from the same family of systems you’re used to: It’s Haiku, and it’s totally different and unique. The great part, though, is when it works better than you could’ve possibly imagined.
And when I sat down with Haiku last week, I knew I had something special.
It’s been almost three months since I posted about the Haiku Promotion Team, and the response to my initial post has been amazing and exceeded my expectations!
There are now six of us (excluding myself) on the Haiku Promotion Team:
- scott_pupolo18
- stoltenberg
- tthoms
- mbrumbelow
- shaka444
- fox14
The Team communicates regularly through a private group chat on the Haiku forums, and stoltenberg has started up a kanban board, which you can view publicly here (Just ignore the login prompt that pops up once you open the kanban). On there, we’ve gathered ideas, tasks and plans for the future. stoltenberg also went through the forums and gathered your feedback and suggestions so far for consideration. If you have any feedback about the kanban or our plans in general, don’t hesitate to let us know on the forums.
This report covers revisions hrev54947-hrev54978 (that was a quiet month in Haiku)
HaikuDepot
Andrew Lindesay continues his work on cleaning HaikuDepot sources and removing
a custom-made List class to use standard (BeAPI and C++ stl) containers. There
were some regressions in the process, that were found and identified.
He also fixed various other bugs.
non-x86 ports
tqh is working on the 64bit ARM port, doing the package bootstrap, fixing the
compiler configuration, and adding missing pieces of platform specific code.
Hi all, hope you are all having a great start to March! kallisti5 has put together a survey to help determine the priorities the Project should focus on for the immediate future. If you haven’t already, we would really appreciate if you filled out the survey - it is 100% anonymous and you do not have to enter any personal details.
You can fill out the survey here.
Please do not hesitate to give your feedback on Haiku in the survey - your feedback can influence decisions we make in the future. Additionally, if you have any feedback on how the survey should be conducted, please let kallisti5 know either through the forums or on the Haiku mailing lists.
The Haiku operating system has a packaging system that leverages a clever file format called HPKG. This article provides a simplistic overview of how the file format is structured.
Installing and Uninstalling HPKGs
To get a package installed on their Haiku computer, a user would download a package file in a format called HPKG. The user would typically do this via the HaikuDepot desktop application or by using the pkgman command line tool. Once an HPKG file is downloaded and moved into place at /system/packages, the contents of the package appear read-only in the file system. An example file might be pe-2.4.5-8-x86_64.hpkg which would provide the necessary files for the popular Pe text editor to be used.
Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce being the target of the Icculus Microgrant program for 2020. We would like to thank Icculus, and all of the wonderful folks who have donated to Haiku, Inc. over the years.
Your continued donations help keep us working on what we love, and help us continuously grow and develop the ideal personal computing operating system.
Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th
anniversary of Haiku.
This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947.
Architectures, ports, bootloaders
PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It had been broken by changes for SPARC support. The openfirmware code to set up the splash screen was also fixed to work on sparc.
tqh continues his work on cleaning and simplifying our EFI support. We have started from GNU EFI, which everyone seems to use as a reference project for how to do an EFI bootloader. However, their code is not very clear and it makes it difficult to improve it and make changes. So we are slowly rewriting parts in simpler and cleaner ways.
