Hi there, I'm back for an activity report!
Let's see what happened last month. This report covers hrev51986-52054
Donations and funding I just wanted to note that the 5 Haiku contributors who joined Liberapay are now part of a "team".
In case you missed it, Liberapay is a way to donate money to some Haiku contributors directly. They are an open source project, funded themselves by donations from their users, and with an interesting approach to funding free software and other commons creations.
Welcome to the fourth monthly report for 2018!
This report covers hrev51873-hrev51921.
32/64 bit hybrid support Let's start with the most exciting developments this month: Korli started work on a 32/64 bit hybrid. The idea is to run a 64bit system, but allow 32bit applications to run on it. While we are just at the very first steps, it is a good thing that this is being worked on, as it will allow us to move more smoothly towards 64bit support.
Welcome to the third monthly report for 2018!
This report covers hrev51833-hrev51872.
System Hrishi Hiraskar (one of our GSoC applicants) reworked the management of the shutdown phase. This revolves around both launch daemon and the BRoster, which collaborate together to coordinate system shutdown. Things must happen in a specific order to make sure all apps are properly terminated (leaving the user a chance to save his work if not done yet), and only then, system servers are stopped.
Welcome to the second monthly report for 2018!
This report covers hrev51791-hrev51832
Infrastructure There is a lot of invisible work in progress on getting the Haiku infrastructure migrated to a new server and streamlined to use containers and standardized setup. This will eventually allow to better share the work of system administration in a larger team, allowing to scale up the infrastructure.
Part of this work is updating our Pootle install, which will soon have a new version up in production.
Welcome to the first monthly report for 2018!
This report covers hrev51723-hrev51790
Switch to Gerrit The Haiku git repository is now running Gerrit. Gerrit is a tool designed to help with code reviews. The idea is to review the code before it is integrated in nightly builds, instead of reviewing after the fact as it was done for Haiku until now.
This should make it easier to track pending patches, and increase the stability of the nightly builds and development branch.
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.
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.
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)
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).
