Hello, it’s time for the May activity report!
Before starting the report, we would like to thank our donors for their donations. Your donations help us cover our expenses and help us reach our goal to hire people to work on Haiku full-time. We would also like to thank all the community for their countless hours of effort of implementing new features, triaging bugs, translating, supporting other users, and spreading the Haiku word all around.
This report covers revisions hrev54979-hrev55069.
HaikuDepot
Andrew Lindesay continues his work on HaikuDepot, fixing a glitch in redrawing
of featured packages. He completed the removal of the custom list class, so
HaikuDepot uses standard container classes from C++ or Haiku APIs. This makes
the code more similar to other parts of Haiku and easier to maintain.
With this rework done, Andrew is now working on new features. The first of these
is a counter for views of packages, which will allow to imrpove the way we decide
which packages are “featured” in HaikuDepot home screen.
This report covers revisions hrev54947-hrev54978 (that was a quiet month in Haiku)
HaikuDepot
Andrew Lindesay continues his work on cleaning HaikuDepot sources and removing
a custom-made List class to use standard (BeAPI and C++ stl) containers. There
were some regressions in the process, that were found and identified.
He also fixed various other bugs.
non-x86 ports
tqh is working on the 64bit ARM port, doing the package bootstrap, fixing the
compiler configuration, and adding missing pieces of platform specific code.
Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th
anniversary of Haiku.
This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947.
Architectures, ports, bootloaders
PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It had been broken by changes for SPARC support. The openfirmware code to set up the splash screen was also fixed to work on sparc.
tqh continues his work on cleaning and simplifying our EFI support. We have started from GNU EFI, which everyone seems to use as a reference project for how to do an EFI bootloader. However, their code is not very clear and it makes it difficult to improve it and make changes. So we are slowly rewriting parts in simpler and cleaner ways.
Welcome to the November-December activity report!
This report covers hrev54716-hrev54805 (about 5 weeks of work).
Code cleanup
mt fixed various warnings, use-after-free, memory leaks, and dead code problems detected by the clang static analyzer.
X512 reworked app_server memory management to use owning pointers and avoid some
memory leaks and use-after-free cases. This led to a rework of the classes used for that
purpose, in particular AutoDeleter and its variants, to be more efficient and more flexible.
Welcome to the October activity report!
I had managed to get other people to write the report for a few months, but
not for October, apparently. So, I’m back!
This report covers hrev54609-hrev54715 (about a month and a half work).
The focus is not much on new and exciting features this month, there is a lot
of bug fixing and cleanup work going on, as well as some performance improvements,
and compatibility fixes for easier application porting.
Welcome to the May-June 2020 activity report!
Are we released yet?
Yes! You probably already know, the Beta 2 version has shipped and is available for download.
There was a lot of work done towards the release, and then some of us decided to take a break
from Haiku for a few weeks to compensate for it.
Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is already reaching it’s mid-point with the end of
the first month of coding period. Patches from our 4 students are getting merged
as they go. You can follow their progress on their respective blogs.
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.
