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.
I have not used this blog in a while, except for the monthly activity report.
But it’s time for a clarification.
Lately, several people (some newcomers, some long time members of the community)
have started contacting me by private messages (either by e-mail or IRC chat).
Sometimes it was the right thing to do, there are parts of the code for which
I’m indeed the best person to ask, and sometimes things are not to be discussed
on public channels (for example, because it involves personal data that should
stay private).
Hello and welcome to the (almost) monthly activity report for December 2019! December wasn’t the busiest for Haiku code-wise, but nonetheless we saw a lot of Google Code-In contributions. This year marks the 10th anniversary of GCI, in which Haiku has participated since the very beginning.
On the non-coding side, GCI participants wrote new virtualization guides: alwayslivid wrote a guide on AWS and rewrote the old Xen one, trungnt2910 wrote a guide on qemu, R4H33M wrote a guide on Vultr and redsPL’s (hey, that’s me!) wrote guides on VMware ESXi and DigitalOcean. Other than that, Vrondir made a KVM tutorial video and Zotyamester made a VMware Workstation video.
The last two months have been quite busy for me and I had no time to write up a report. Remember
that everyone is welcome to contribute to the website and if you wand to write the report from time
to time, this would be much appreciated, by me because I wouldn’t need to do it, and by others
because they will enjoy reading things written with a different style and perspective.
Hi there, it’s time for the monthly report!
This report covers hrev53461-hrev53529. Let’s see what happened this month in Haiku.
Non-x86 support
Some initial work for ARM64 was completed by kallisti5. This includes setting up the Haikuports
package declarations, writing the early boot files, and in general getting the buildsystem going.
Jaroslaw Pelczar also contributed several further patches (some of these still undergoing review),
providing the initial interrupt handling support, and various stubs to let things compile
