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WebKit weekly report #1

Blog post by PulkoMandy on Fri, 2013-09-27 08:56

cmake, contract work, distcc, WebKit, webpositive

Hey, it's Friday already !

So, now that I'm (mostly) done moving and I have set up my workplace (including internet access, electricity, and everything required), I can finally start doing some actual work on WebKit. So, what's hapenned this week ? Well, actually, not that much.

A quick reminder, you can follow the commits on the bnetapi branch of haiku-webkit repo at github.

I've also set up a Gist TODO list so you can see things I want to work on. Please send me comments about websites that don't work well, I'll add them to the list and see what can be done.

More news from WebPositive

Blog post by PulkoMandy on Thu, 2013-09-12 17:03

contract work, WebKit, webpositive

Hi everyone,
It's been two weeks since the previous blog post, so here goes an update.

First of all, I wanted to make it clear that I haven't started to work on my contract, so the few things that happened in the last two weeks were done on my free time. Said free time was short, as I'm in the process of moving to another city and I've been packing a lot of stuff and cleaning my flat. Note I will be offline starting next week, and I hope to get internet access back as soon as possible. I won't start working on the contract before I'm back online, as testing a web browser without any internet access creates more problems than I'm willing to solve.

Enhancing the scheduler

Blog post by Paweł Dziepak on Sat, 2013-09-07 20:17

kernel, scheduler, contract work

Soon I am going to work as a full-time Haiku developer on enhancing the scheduler. The goal is to improve performance of the whole system and finally deal with some long standing problems. To achieve this CPU affinity will be introduced what would make cache utilization better and I will implement scheduler strategies based on dynamic priorities what, hopefully, would once and for all deal with priority inversion. In addition to that, I want to make scheduler more power-aware. Haiku currently lacks low-level support for some of the more advanced power related features of CPUs but having scheduler ready for would save us from redesigning it later. Also, there are still ways to conserve energy without using the most recent technologies.

Working on WebPositive

Blog post by PulkoMandy on Fri, 2013-08-30 00:56

Services Kit, webpositive, contract work

As you may know, I'm going to spend some time again as a full-time Haiku developer. This time, I'll be working on improving WebPositive and the WebKit port to bring a better web browsing experience to Haiku users.

During the past weeks I've managed to spare some free time to get up to speed on the various pieces of code involved and how to work with them. This first blog post summarizes the current state of affairs and I'll set some goals (with your help) for the next monthes.

Package Management: The Return of the Hybrid

Blog post by bonefish on Mon, 2013-08-12 16:37

package management, contract work

Although I have been a lazy blogger lately we haven't been lazy working on our remaining tasks at all. So, unsurprisingly, since my previous post we have reached and passed a few nice milestones. The latest one is that we're finally able to build the gcc2/gcc4 hybrid Haiku images again, including all the software needed for the official release.

Package Management: Getting Cross

Blog post by zooey on Tue, 2013-06-11 09:32

contract work, package management

The end of my first two-man-months contract has been reached, but I'll be diving right into the next 160 hours of working on package management. So, first of all: a big thank you to all the donors out there!

Package Management: New Contract Starts

Blog post by bonefish on Mon, 2013-06-03 20:13

package management, contract work

My new contract has now officially started. At the moment it looks like its duration will be at least three months. A big thanks to everyone who donated to make that possible!