Hello there!
It’s been exactly a month since my last post. Sorry for not posting much!
Work done so far:
You can check for the patches here: https://review.haiku-os.org/q/hashtag:gsoc2020+owner:shubhambhagat111%2540yahoo.com
But in short this is what is done,
- Made some small change in the File System interface docs to make the working of readdir a little more understandable.
- Inodes can now be read from disk, it was interesting to see how inode was located on the disk itself though. Had to try a few times until I got it right.
- Implemented read_stat and get_vnode hook. It’s not really anything complex I think. I took inspiration of implementation from other FileSystems we have and I guess by reading the docs.
- Short Directories can now be read. This means when the entries inside a directory are less, all the entry metadata can be stored inside the inode itself. Getting this to work was exciting!
- Block Directories can now be read. Ofcourse the number of entries might increase and we might want to do better than short directories. Hence, a directory block (4KB in my test), is used to store all metadata of entries. I tried and I could have around 100ish directory entries inside a block directory.
I feel initially quite some time was spent on structuring things a little bit. To understand how to make something work.
It’s pretty long overdue for the post, but here I am.
Introduction:
I’m Leorize, a past GCI participant and a former active member of HaikuPorts.
If you hang around the #haiku IRC channel, chances are that you might know me
:)
I started contributing to Haiku around 2017, when I joined GCI. Since then,
I’ve authored many bug fixes and ports, including some notable ports like
libuv, mandoc, pkgconf, and pyqt.
This blog will contain all the information about what I have done in the community bonding period. It’s a bit late to post a blog because I have my exams from 29 May 2020 - 3 June 2020.
My first task was to add the icons to the device list which was completed from my side and now working on its backlogs.
Please have a review
For completing this task first I understood the code of the icon that was used in the media preference. Then, by following the coding criteria I added the space for the icons on the left side of the items. But, while adding the icons to it. The icons were not present then, PulkoMandy told me the icons that were used in the media have fixed size. But here, the icons have a variable size. To get the icons in the list I have to use BIconUtils. After following the above idea I completed my task. :)
Sorry for the late post, but here we go!
Introduction:
I am Shubham Bhagat, a sophomore, currently majoring in Computer Science Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sricity, India.
I came across Haiku, last November (2019), while I was looking for an operating system I could contribute to. My interest to contribute came from a mini college course. I knew Haiku was also part of GSoC for many years now, so getting the chance to work as an intern and learn here was a no brainer. So THANK YOU for selecting me as a mentee!
Introduction:
I am Preetpal Kaur B.Tech.(3rd year), Computer Science and Engineering(CSE) student of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, India. Last year I worked on an Input Preferences project in Haiku as an Outreachy intern 2019, which encapsulates all the preferences in a single dialog window. Now, my aim is to explore this project more by adding the new preferences for the devices and enhance their functionalities.
About my project:
Previously, the input preferences contained the UI and the functionalities of mouse, keyboard, keymap and touchpad. Now, to enhance it more, I decided to add the more GUI and functionalities of the wacom tablet and joystick. Also it needs to add more buttons for mouse for powerful users. In haiku, each application has a logo for each. So, it should also be the same for input preferences.
Hello everyone!
I am one of the selected students for this year Google Summer of Code(GSoC). This is my first blog on Haiku website and in this post I will introduce myself and share details about my project.
Introduction
My name is Suhel Mehta and my name on IRC channel is suhel. I am studying Computer Science and Engineering(CSE) at GNDEC(Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College) in Punjab, India. I am also a part of Development team of college that do technical work. In order to complete the task given by them I use Linux for most of the time but I am using Haiku on my virtual machine and learing about it. I have applied for GSoC this year in Haiku and got selected :-)
Welcome to the April 2020 activity report!
Are we released yet?
The big news first: a timeline has been set for Beta 2! If all goes well, it will
be released by the end of May. Of course, this means everyone has been scrambling
for last minute changes this month instead of stabilizing everything. We are now
in “soft freeze”, and the branch will be created on Friday.
Now is a good time to test nightly builds on all your machines, help with the
translations, and make that bugreport you’ve been postponing for months.
Hello!
The previous report involved a lot of travelling around and attending various
events and conferences. This month is quite different as some of us are locked
home due to the ongoing pandemic. We already know some of the next planned
events such as the JDLL and FLISOL are cancelled (for good reasons).
Anyway, the activity on Haiku has not slowed down, so let’s see what’s happening
there. This report covers hrev53875-hrev53995.
Hi there!
It’s time for the monthly report for January (and half of February as well).
This report convers hrev53715-hrev53874 and some real world activities.
Unit Tests
It’s about time the unit tests for Haiku get some serious attention and fixes.
Kyle Ambroff-Kao is currently working on them and fixing various issues.
This month he fixed problems in the app and support kits tests, identifying
deviations fro, BeOS, some on purpose, some that could be regressions.
This 2019/2020 Google Code-in (GCI) was the 10th iteration in as many years and according to Google’s stats it was the most successful yet: In 7 weeks 3,566 students from 76 countries finished 20,840 tasks for 29 open source organizations!
Haiku was one of those organizations - the only open source project, by the way, that participated in all 10 editions of GCI - and we had our share of dedicated students that completed numerous tasks, big and small. You may have noticed the increased updates on the HaikuPorts commits page, that got even more busy than usual. Other tasks resulted in new and updated documentation, guides and videos. Projects at HaikuArchives saw bugfixes and new features. Apps were tested and new issues were discovered and filed at their bugtracker.
