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.
Hello everyone!
This blog-post marks the final report on bringing Swift to Haiku in the Google Summer of Code period. My introductory post on this project can be found here for a brief overview of the project.
Summary
In the last 3 coding periods, my contributions to Haiku’s LLVM and Clang ports plus reporting some bugs with the Haiku developers have made it possible for the Swift toolchain to be built on Haiku. With this, it opens the possibility to use cross-platform Swift libraries used on other platforms and also allows to directly use the libc/glibc libraries via the GlibC module. I have already done an initial port of Foundation and libdispatch on Haiku as specified in the previous blog-post, but they still need to be polished for general use. As for upstreaming my patches for Haiku support, I’ve sent my patches to apple/swift and they are currently under review.
Hello World.
This is Anirudh. Here’s my final overall report of my work during Google Summer of Code 2017.
My sincere thanks to waddlesplash and Sean Healy, for their excellent mentorship.
They immediately responded, and assisted me whenever I needed help. I’m grateful to
the Haiku team, community members and my fellow GSoC colleagues for their help, constructive criticism, reporting bugs and helping the project shape better.
Link to the source code/repo: https://github.com/HaikuArchives/SuperPrefs
Hello Everyone!
In this post I would be focusing on the work done in the past two weeks.
I worked on Google Calendar integration and general improvements and bug
fixes in the Calendar App. I also worked on implementing a relative datetime
formatter and general enhancements/bug fixes involving the Haiku locale kit.
Calendar App
Fetching events using Google Calendar API and syncing with the database works
now. There are issues with sending JSON data in an http post request, which
always results in a parse error in the API response, as a result of which
adding/updating events to Google Calendar doesn't work currently. I would
be working to fix the same over the next few days. Deleting events from Google
Calendar works fine.
Hello everyone
The end of the GSOC period is drawing near. In this blogpost I would like to summarize the work done during this period. To know where it all began, refer to my first blog post which can be found here.
Overview
When I started, a running implementation of TCP existed in Haiku. My work was to read it, understand it and improve it. When I say improvement, I mean in terms of implementing new congestion control algorithms, updating the exisiting ones with recent request for comments documents (RFCs) and extending the current capabilities of the implementation. The roadmap to all this is RFC 7414 itself.
Hello World.
The last coding period of Google Summer of Code is about to end, and it’s time for us to submit a final report.
But I thought to conclude the Weekly Reports with this one, covering the changes of this particular period.
Thanks to Brian Hill (Perelandra0x309) for opening issues in the repo, almost all of the
issues posted were fixed and closed.
The search now works on related keywords of all System preflets. Related Keywords search for Custom Preflets is in works.
Hello everyone,
Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming to the end. This is my final report which covers third coding sprint, also read my introduction blog[1] for a brief of my project.
Creating and removing directories are now working. Basically, creating directories involve in inserting new inode (metadata of file) and making links between file name and inode. Because directories don’t hold any data so there isn’t any links between inode and file data, creating new files need to handle it.
Time for another update on the swift port, which covers the last two weeks of my activity, So here it goes!
Week 9 - My Findings on Porting libdispatch
On the 9th week, I added early support for building libdispatch aka ‘Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)’ which is Apple’s event-driven concurrency framework which allows executing high performance code via asynchronous task queues or I/O file descriptors (including sockets), which enables programs to take advantage of multi-core systems and to run Swift programs that utilises this. After that, I’ve began porting the core-foundation-libraries aka ‘Foundation’ framework to Haiku, which is needed to support the package manager and other cross-platform swift libraries.
