Hi there, it's time for the monthly report again! This report covers
hrev53338-hrev53461. It's been a busy month!
User interface
Andrew Lindesay continue his work on HaikuDepot, tweaking the BarberPole
look, adding a display of "usage conditions" (EULA, license, etc) from packages,
Ryan Leavengood also worked in this area, making sure if you open an existing
hpkg file with HaikuDepot, it will offer you to uninstall the package if it's
currently installed.
PVS studio has just published a series of 3 articles looking over errors and
bugs they identified in our sourcecode. PVS is a code static analysis tool
that identifies code likely to be incorrect.
They had already run a similar scan back in 2015. At the time, their tools
ran on Windows only which had made this quite a challenge for them. They are
now more Linux friendly, so it was much easier for them to perform the scan.
Hey, it's time for a new monthly report already! This one is a bit shorter
than usual as the previous one was a bit late, but let's try to get mostly back
on schedule. This report covers hrev53175-hrev53238.
Optimizations
We are now in beta phase, and besides the usual bugfixes, it's time to start
investigating performance bottlenecks in Haiku. Waddlesplash has been hard at
work in that area this month, starting with tuning of the newly integrated
rpmalloc allocator.
Hi there!
The selected students for both Outreachy and Google Summer of Code were publiched on Tuesday.
This year we will be mentoring 3 students bringing new features to Haiku over the summer.
GSoC is a program run and funded by Google, where we (and many other open source
projects) mentor students over the summer to get them up to speed with contributing.
Google gives them a stipend, saving the need for a summer job and allowing them
to focus on their work.
Hi there! We're back for monthly (or almost) reports! I was at the JDLL in
early april, and while preparing for that I didn't have time to write a report,
and no one else did it. So here we go with a 2 month report, prepare for something
a little longer than usual. This report covers hrev52945-hrev53094.
Code cleanups
mt fixed various places where -Werror=class-memaccess was breaking the build.
These are cases where we initialize a C++ object with memset, which is normally
not allowed. Usually this does not result in too much problems, but it could
bite us if we made the objects more complex later on.
Welcome to the activity report for February 2019. This month has been quite busy
for me with the annual visit to FOSDEM (read the report), and managing the application
process for both GSoC and Outreachy (Haiku has been accepted to both programs this year).
We are already seeing candidates applying to both GSoC and Outreachy, so expect
to read about new names in the reports in the coming months and during the summer!
Happy new year! It's 2019 and Haiku is still alive!
First of all, it's time to look at the stats for Haiku and Haikuports.
As you can see, the activity for haikuports keeps growing (there are now 2x more commits to haikuports than to Haiku),
and Haiku got slightly more commits in 2018, after two historically low activity years.
Let's hope the trend continues and we can reach the high levels of activity of 2008-2010 again someday.
Welcome to the last activity report in 2018!
I notice that I have not written any report since july. Thanks to the other
community members who took care of them during that period, as I was busy
moving (again) to a new flat, and then visiting the USA for the GSoC mentor
summit and germany for BeGeistert.
Anyway, this report covers hrev5263-hrev52615. We are past the beta release
now, so unsurprisingly, the activity is mostly focused on bugfixes, but there
are always some new things going on.
Hi there, it's time for the monthly report! (yes, I'm still out of inspiration for catchy headlines)
This report covers hrev52055-52140
Drivers
waddlesplash completed his work synchronizing drivers with FreeBSD 11. The FreeBSD9 compatibility
layer is now gone and all drivers are up to date again.
jessicah fixed a problem in the UEFI framebuffer driver (most of the code is shared with the
"VESA" driver, although there is no VESA BIOS in this case). So you are more likely to see a
bootscreen on UEFI machines now.
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. Your donations are
anonymous if you use this channel, which makes sure it isn't used as a hidden contract work or
bounty or any other kind of commercial system. So, have a look at the Haiku team on Liberapay
and consider funding the work of either the team as a whole, or one contributor in particular.
