R1 (Final) Features Poll
By large, the Haiku Project is based on a meritocracy -- the notion of people gaining prestige and influence in the project by making valuable contributions (whether it be code, documentation, or other recognized services to the project). However, there are also elements of a representative democracy, where the voting body will consider the thoughts of the larger user base of Haiku when making decisions. But there is no doubt that at the end of the day decisions are made by members of the meritocracy.
This general interest poll, is to allow you -- yes you! -- the opportunity to effectively express your thoughts on which features should be present in Haiku R1 (Final). For R1, a balance must be attained between delaying the release and making Haiku R1 a well polished, impressive and feature rich release.
This poll will remain open until Sunday December 12, 2010 (approximately 19:00 UTC). Afterwards, the results will be merged onto the FutureHaiku/Features wiki page on the Haiku Project's Development Tracker. A courtesy email will also be sent to the [haiku-development] mailing list.
- Russian translation (provided by RISC)
This general interest poll is now closed.. The results have been attached as images to FutureHaiku/Features. A mailing list discussion will occur later in the week, as some active committers have yet to post their thoughts. Thank you all for participating!
Comments
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
where's the "not necessary" option?
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
-> "only-if-ready"
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
FAT(32) file system, as standard, or as an option, until the system is really usable.
Probably not possible though?
BFS causes all kinds of partitioning problems.
The boot loader is really, really a must.
TYVM :)
Just an opinion
I think that network connectivity is priority for happy Haiku hacking. because I want to be able to haiku hacking everywhere not only at home with LAN wire. Also the TTY Layer task (http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/35) that I had been created 5 years ago seems still missed. That task is blocking us from using 3G modems and many serial devices including USB devices.
Other point that Haiku seems not working on many modern hardware including AHCI notebooks (with no options to disable it) and RAID-only configurations. The point that "you can hack in virual machines" is not acceptable nor for me neither for most Haiku hackers.
The other features as Docs and API Stylish are really not comparable to that directions.
Please get Haiku wide range hardware stable and wireless configurations available.
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
ACPI still hangs on my laptop AFAIK... I'll test it again soon & update the ticket.
A tty layer would be nice. I forgot to mention in the suggestions box... USB wifi support its rather common on old hardware to add wireless via usb assuming you have USB at all or even improve reception with a good USB adapter on a laptop with poor integrated WiFi.
IRQ routing is a big one IMO.
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
NIce, but pity theres no option to vote something out.
Im more of a minimalist and would perfer if as little documentation and app clutter were included as standard. Im only only a small number of end users would actually use it and its probably easy to download.
Same goes for the development tools.
Thanks though.
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
Great initiative, I would have preferred a slightly broader range than 'must have' and 'only-if-ready' but I think you guys did a great job on the features available to vote for (although I missed an option of locking axel,ingo and stippi into a basement with only computers and a makeshift toilet and keeping them there until xmas). Will be interesting seeing the results of this poll.
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
I added my tuppence. Not what I'd like to see, but what I think makes sense to achieve for a first release: generally usable but it's OK if remote corners of the universe are overlooked.
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
just saw the discussion on the ML before :-)
I'm really happy to see a poll
you guys are improving so much and commits are happening at fantastic speed :-)
I just wait for WPA and a few more things to make haiku my primary netbook OS!
and would definitely want to see it feature complete on ARM
but well as long as im only accompanying haiku by reading the blogs and commits from years its easy to ask for features without contributing :-)
thank you all and let's all make R1 and ongoing happen!!!
Diego
P.S. I planned to post this here but first sent an empty poll with just a comment, feel free to delete that poll entry ;-)
Re: R1 (Final) Features Poll
My priorities:
bootman ... so I can install Haiku on the second hd and use bootman to switch OS.
ppp/dialup ... not everyone has a broadband connection.
TTY Layer ... needed for many dial-up configurations.
WiFi (WPA,WPA2 encryption) ... just to make haiku usable on laptops.
WiFi (userland tools + ifconfig integration) ... just to make haiku usable on laptops.
Networked Filesystem Integration (ftp, ssh, nfs, smb) ... allow haiku to be used for business.
WebPositive: User agent faking ... let the website think I am using IE.
WebPositive: SSL cert enhancements ... secure web.
Network preflet rewrite ... make the network more usable.
The rest are good, but this would make Haiku usable.