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Today is May 28^_^

Blog post by absabs on Mon, 2007-05-28 02:23

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.

I'm eager for the first payment ^_^. So I can buy a second hand pc with IDE disk and a DV cam with 1394. Today is May 28, I will continue to read the remaing source code and begin coding soon.

Sorry for my broken English :(

Haiku Admin Meeting Summary - May 21, 2007

Blog post by umccullough on Wed, 2007-05-23 21:00

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.

Report on the API Documentation Team Meeting of May 19th 2007

Blog post by nielx on Sat, 2007-05-19 10:12
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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.

Haiku Admin Meeting Summary - May 14, 2007

Blog post by umccullough on Wed, 2007-05-16 22:52

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.

ANNOUNCEMENT: First API Documentation Team Meeting

Blog post by nielx on Tue, 2007-05-15 11:30
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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.

Packages and file collisions

Blog post by Sil2100 on Thu, 2007-05-10 18:29
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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.

Settings, BeOS style

Blog post by koki on Tue, 2007-05-08 18:05
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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. :)

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