Haiku Admin Meeting 2007-06-04:
- There was some discussion about the status of several of the GSoC students/mentors now that GSoC has officially begun (May 28th).
- A couple of minor notes about some website changes were mentioned.
Looks like June 4, 2007 was a short meeting :)I would like to remind readers that any official discussion about the decisions made by the Haiku Admins should be directed to the General Mailing List. Any mistakes in this summary may be posted in the comments if desired or you may use my contact page.Haiku Admin Meeting 2007-05-28:
- Discussion about new "Admin organizer" internal-use website for managing tasks, admin votes, etc.
- Some discussion took place about possibly organizing a physical "admin gathering" somewhere.
- Michael Lotz has volunteered, and is currently a primary candidate for "Project management" type tasks.
- Mention of the need to assign/complete the Haiku, Inc. 2006 financial publication.
- Discussed Haiku Compatible Badges:
It appears many are currently in favor of Stephan's designs.
Mention of possible "Haiku powered" or "Haiku inside" on a badge.
Should open-vote be used similar to the icon sets? Further discussion about decision will be moved to Admin mailing list.
Currently collecting all the "entries" from the General Mailing List.- Some WalterCon scheduling options discussed:
Discussed what types of content should be provided for attendees.
Reminder of survey results. (Ed note: Survey should now be closed as of June 1, 2007)
Note that most attendees could fall into "User" and "Application Developer" categories.
Possibly an audio driver API presentation?- Discussion about Haiku Compatibility List:
Should it remain as an external site - or try to move it to the official site?
If hosted internally, should it still be primarily a community-driven effort? This would probably ensure it remains up-to-date.
Karl should be contacted to discuss options.- Discussed possibility of opening a "bounties" section on the official site:
Bounties should be reasonable.
Could both Haiku-sponsored bounties and community-initiated bounties be supported? If yes, they should be clearly separated to avoid confusion about sponsorship.
That wraps it up for the May 28, 2007 meeting.I would like to remind readers that any official discussion about the decisions made by the Haiku Admins should be directed to the General Mailing List. Any mistakes in this summary may be posted in the comments if desired or you may use my contact page.As many of you know, I’ve started working even before the SoC started officially. I’ve already sent two patches to both my mentor (Oliver R. Dorantes) and Michael Lotz for review. One of them has already been commited by mmu_man (thanks). The second one is under review. With this latest one, the usb stack manager should be complete, as the QueueIsochronous method has been implemented, along with the CalculateBandwidth. My next move is to implement the UHCI isochronous method. Once I’ve done that, testing can be made. As for now, there seem to be a lack of drivers with which I can test the code. Oliver has offered himself to write some simple bluetooth driver just to test the code. Isochronous UHCI Tester are obviously welcome.
Hi all,
My name is JiSheng Zhang. I come from China. I am one of the Haiku’s GSOC2007 students. My work is implementing a FireWire stack with support for mass storage and DV cams. I plan to port the FreeBSD FireWire stack. I will do my development under debian.
After google anouncement on April 11, I spent time in building Haiku, running on the real PC and reading the source code of haiku’s PCI and SCSI sub system and other code about driver writing.
Haiku Admin Meeting 2007-05-21:
- Admins discussed OpenBFS Team broadening - it has currently been renamed to File System Team and should probably include all file system-related aspects of Haiku.
- There was some further discussion about other OSS projects and their similar struggles with "Openness" - Mozilla's recent scrutiny was cited as an example.
- There was a request for any final comments on the list of non-dev/non-admin tasks posted on the Admin mailing list.
- It was discussed that the Admin mailing list needs to be relocated - and preferably self-hosted on the Haiku-os.org server.
- It was mentioned that once the current T-shirt supply is exhausted, they will be looking for a new store/shop to create the next round of T-shirts (and possibly other merchandise). The hunt is on for high-quality shops cheaper than Cafepress - with the company that Mozilla currently uses as a possible prospect.
- The Admins discussed adopting a new method for managing meeting agendas in the future.
That wraps it up for the May 21, 2007 meeting.I would like to remind readers that any official discussion about the decisions made by the Haiku Admins should be directed to the General Mailing List. Any mistakes in this summary may be posted in the comments if desired or you may use my contact page.This is a report of the meeting of the API documentation team that was held on May 18th 2007 at 19:00 GMT on freenode.org in the #haiku-doc channel. The full IRC log is hosted by John Drinkwater.
Here are some of the highlights for those that don't want to read the complete document. In this meeting people introduced themselves to the group. There was discussion on the working process, and it was decided to create a three phase working process and to start on the support kit. Communications will be done on the mailing list and on a wiki page. There were decisions on authors versus proofreaders and some small amendments to the existing API documentation guidelines were decided on.
The decision to summarize and publish regular Haiku Admin meetings is a step being taken to improve transparency and openness largely as a result of recent and past community feedback on the mailing list. Additionally, there has been an Admin Team Page provided with some details about the current membership and responsibilities of the Haiku Admin Team.
Haiku Admin Meeting 2007-05-14:
The meeting started off with a reminder to subscribe to the new Haiku Development Mailing List if any attendees had not done so yet.
On Friday the 18th of May, 19:00 GMT (21:00 in Amsterdam, 20:00 in London), I'd like the documentation team to meet. This meeting is for all the people interested in the API documentation, whether or not you are actually planning on contributing or not. We would like to hear as much different opinions as possible.
The meeting will be on IRC, on freenode irc.freenode.net), in the channel #haiku-doc. This space is open for everyone. The list of topics to be discussed below.
Finally back with a proper development environment.
Seizing the opportunity of having some free time, I finished implementing the user interface and prepared everything for package file parsing. Since I have yet to analyze the .pkg format throughout, I’d rather have everything prepared for this to come. From what I see from the materials sent by Ryan, the format itself doesn’t seem to be as complicated, but there are still quite some unknowns. I will have to do some tests on a BeOS platform to see how a few other things work. For instance - unknown various bytes between the package description and the package author and name. Probably unessential though…
I will look into this more as soon as possible.
In his Popular Network Preferences applications and comments blog post, GSoC student Andre Alves Garzia gives a great comparative overview of network preferences apps in OS X, Ubuntu, Windows and ZETA, as a means to look for the ideal approach for Haiku.
Andre's post actually reminded me of a few ideas that I had quite some time ago about a BeOS-like way for handling network/email/printer settings (in ZETA, back in the days when I was using it), that I think would still apply for Haiku. I don't know if they are within the scope of what Andre is doing and, not being an engineer, I don't either have a clue whether these ideas can be implemented or not. But I will present them anyway, even at the risk of exposing my sheer ignorance. :)
