Welcome to the last report for the year 2017!
Stats
Who doesn't like them? I updated the Haiku stats to keep track of
the activity in our git repository.
The overall number of commits is very similar to 2016 (which was our quietest
year so far) with more than 1300 commits (far from the 5555 commits in 2009).
Our author of the year is waddlesplash with 213 commitsi, followed by PulkoMandy,
Korli, Humdinger, Kallisti5, and Skipp_OSX. 65 different commiters
made changes to Haiku this year, a net increase from 48 in 2016, but not reaching
as high as 2012 (83 different committers). In the week-by-week graph you can
also clearly see the effect of the coding sprint, which is of course the week
with most commits.
During this year’s coding sprint in Toulouse (which I was able to attend, thanks to being in Europe on a study-abroad program), I spent a lot of time massaging HaikuPorts to generate a consistent-enough state of packages for us to switch to them by default, and then making the in-tree changes necessary for the switch. Thanks to this and mmlr’s comprehensive overhaul of the HaikuPorter Buildmaster over the past couple months, we have finally switched to the new repositories by default as of hrev51620. If you’ve installed a nightly image from after this, you should be able to just pkgman full-sync and upgrade away.
Hi there,
This month has been quite filled with Haiku events, including two conferences
and a coding sprint.
Read on for our adventures climbing over a gate, planespotting, and
eventually troubleshooting a real-scale flight simulator!
This report also covers hrev51518-hrev51622.
In order to better keep track of what happened during the sprint, this report is
roughly in time order, rather than the usual categories.
Week 1
Korli fixed a bug in the newly implemented posix_spawn, allowing the fish shell to use it without freezing.
Haiku’s GUI is in principle entirely scriptable. You can change a window’s position and size and manipulate pretty much every widget in it.
The tool to do this is hey. It sends BMessages to an application, thus emulating what happens if the user clicks on a menu, checkbox, or other widgets.
The seminal work on this application scripting is the BeOS Application Scripting chapter of the BeOS Bible by Chris Herborth. You should study that first and, if you’re like me, will keep coming back to it every time you think about solving something via hey.
Hey there! It's time for the monthly report!
This report covers hrev51465-hrev51517.
Packages
Not much changes on packages anymore since the plan is to switch to the new repos generated by the buildbots "real soon now" (but the repo is still missing some critical packages). However, some maintenance efforts are still done.
The "bc" command is now moved to a separate package instead of being part of Haiku.
Many packages were rebuilt and updated following ABI changes in BControlLook.
Hi there! This week-end was the Google Summer of Code mentor summit.
This event gathers mentors from all organizations participating in GSoC and GCI for an event hosted by Google.
Usually the summit happens at the same time as BeGeistert, and as a result I never made it there before. But with
no BeGeistert happening this year, I could finally make it.
Normally each organization is allowed to send 2 mentors, but we managed to get 6 people from Haiku to attend this
year (by a combination of an extra mentor allowed because we do GCI, putting people on the waiting list and taking the
slots freed by other orgs sending only one (or 0) mentor), having some Haiku people working at Google and helping run
the event, and an hand-crafted badge to get into the event without registering)
Haiku released R1 Alpha 4.1 on November 14th, 2012. (5 years ago next month).
Since our last release, we have seen a huge number of groundbreaking
new features slip into the
nightly code including package management.
Along with the addition of Package Management (which was added pretty shortly
after R1A4), we were presented with the massive task of building “all the ports”
into packages and maintaining their dependencies within our repositories.
I was kindly reminded over the IRC channel that it's time for the monthly report once again. So, there we go!
This report covers revision 51402 to 51464.
Graphics
Some efforts this month on the radeon_hd driver, as kallisti5 and jessicah have teamed up to identify
remaining issues with displayport and started working towards multi-head support.
Kallisti5 also cleaned up the remote app_server as well as the HTML5 drawing backend (which should allow to have Haiku run remotely and render the user interface in a web browser).
Hi there, it's time for a new monthly report!
This report covers hrev31437-hrev51402
First of all, I have updated the git stats pages for haiku and haikuports. These provide an overview of the overall activity with various graphs, author ranking, etc.
Anyway, let's see what happened in Haiku this month. As you know, it was the 3rd month of the coding period, and several patches from our GSoC students were merged in (and there is more to come as we continue reviewing their work). You can already enjoy a faster TCP stack, several improvements to the locale kit, and partial write support for btrfs (do not use in production, still experimental).
Hello Everyone!
Google Summer of Code 2017 is off to an end and in this report I'll
be summarizing the work done throughout the summer.
Introductory blog post
Source code: https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Calendar
List of all blog posts:
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/akshayagarwal007/
List of all Commits:
https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Calendar/commits/master
https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commits?author=AkshayAgarwal007
What has been completed
Calendar App
The Calendar app currently has the following features implemented:
- Create, modify and delete events.
- Generate notifications for events.
- Display Day Calendar view.
- Event categorization.
- Set all day long events.
- Fetching events from Google Calendar using Google Calendar API.
- SQLite backend for storing events.
- Setting preferences like 'First day of week',
'Display week number in Calendar'.
- App localization: DateTime strings are localised and updates with
locale preferences changes but GUI string still needs to be localised.
What's left to do (After GSoC)
- Localizing the app's GUI strings
- Implement month view
- Fix adding/updating events to Google Calendar
There are many features that a Calendar app in the present world requires and
all of it couldn't be completed in the summer. Apart from the 'future features'
which I already mentioned in the proposal, throughout the course of the work I
came across many features (based on discussions throughout the project and
suggestions on my blog posts) which the app would require and I opened issues for the
same in the repo so that they don't get lost.
