Welcome to the monthly report for May 2019! PulkoMandy is once again busier than usual, so I’m filling in.
This report covers hrev53094-hrev53174 (120 commits.)
Applications & Libraries
korli changed how runtime_loader handles weak symbols to be more in line with the behavior of other operating systems.
waddlesplash tweaked “strace” to print syscall names plainly, i.e. without the prefixed “kern”.
mmu_man committed changes to allow loading the BControlLook from an add-on, and added a setting to the Appearance preferences for it. This allows developers to create their own control theming, as all controls are drawn using this class.
Hello everybody. This is me Rajagopalan working on getting webkit2 on haiku. Previously as you guys know we were trying to get IPC working. Well we have succeeded in that after hitting some obstacles.
- Message passing should not involve mainloop it should be totally dependent on the workqueue only. As the mainloop can be blocked because of JS Execution which leaves slow performance or even crash.
- Also we stumbled upon an IPC deadlock when we used mainloop (main application loop) as a proxy to send and receive messages.
Thanks to BMessenger we were able to send messages to required place without any interference and problems (although we had to use mainloop once to establish connection). The initialization is bit slow although it works good now allowing us to focus on main part (Rendering).
Introduction:
Hello Everybody, I am G.Rajagopalan working on porting webkit2 to haiku as a part of my GSoC project. So here I am to share our experiences and work regarding the project 😄.
Bonding Process:
I have been with haiku for the past 6 (or 7 months I think) which went like a blink of an eye. I can definitely say that it is a memorable journey with Haiku. I owe it to the beautiful and friendly people who work for haiku. My friends circle has definitely increased. So I can concretely conclude the community bonding process is both fruitful and fun ❤😊😄.
Hi there!
The selected students for both Outreachy and Google Summer of Code were publiched on Tuesday.
This year we will be mentoring 3 students bringing new features to Haiku over the summer.
GSoC is a program run and funded by Google, where we (and many other open source
projects) mentor students over the summer to get them up to speed with contributing.
Google gives them a stipend, saving the need for a summer job and allowing them
to focus on their work.
BAlert("Hello World","Introducing myself",
"Awesome","Cool","Excited",B_SUMMER_IS_FUN);
Introduction:
I am RAJAGOPALAN GANGADHARAN doing Computer science Engineering in India and a GSOC 2019 participant with aim of porting Webkit2 to Haiku. First of all I would like to thank everybody for giving me this wonderful opportunity and I promise to not let the hopes down. I didn’t know much about BeOS until I saw Haiku. Well to be honest I fell in love with the GUI of haiku. The tabs and grouping is really what I wanted, and I was searching my entire life.I am really hoping to see Haiku organization badge in my GitHub profile.
Introduction
Hello, world!
As some of you might be aware, I’m one of the students selected for
GSoC 2019. My name is Bharathi Ramana Joshi. You may know me as brj, my
initials, from the mailing lists and IRC channel. I’m pursuing an underguate
degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Keshav Memorial Institute of
Technology, India.
Project: Improving the btrfs filesystem
As the title suggests, I shall be working on Haiku’s btrfs implementation for
most of the summer. Currently, it is possible to read and write directories but
only read from files. By the end of GSoC 2019, I aim to implement file writing.
Hi there! We're back for monthly (or almost) reports! I was at the JDLL in
early april, and while preparing for that I didn't have time to write a report,
and no one else did it. So here we go with a 2 month report, prepare for something
a little longer than usual. This report covers hrev52945-hrev53094.
Code cleanups
mt fixed various places where -Werror=class-memaccess was breaking the build.
These are cases where we initialize a C++ object with memset, which is normally
not allowed. Usually this does not result in too much problems, but it could
bite us if we made the objects more complex later on.
Due to the awesome work by long-time developer waddlesplash, nightly images after hrev53079 have read/write NVMe support built-in.
What is NVMe?
For those not keeping up with the latest advances in tech, NVMe is a M.2 form-factor flash-based storage device which attaches
directly to the system’s PCI Express bus. These flash devices are present in modern desktops and laptops and offer transfer
speeds of several GiB/s.
These devices now show up in /dev/disk/nvme/ and are fully useable by Haiku.
Last month, I sat down and decided to at the very least attempt to fix our XHCI (USB 3 host controller) bus driver. Issues with it have been the most significant problem users have been facing, as most hardware made post-2012 has an XHCI chip as the system’s primary USB chip, and most hardware made post-2014 (or so) has exclusively an XHCI chip and no EHCI (USB 2.0) or prior chipsets (which we do support very well.)
Welcome to the activity report for February 2019. This month has been quite busy
for me with the annual visit to FOSDEM (read the report), and managing the application
process for both GSoC and Outreachy (Haiku has been accepted to both programs this year).
We are already seeing candidates applying to both GSoC and Outreachy, so expect
to read about new names in the reports in the coming months and during the summer!
