[haiku-development] Re: Busted!

On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:04:01 +1000, Rob Judd wrote
> It's a wake-up call, Michael. I'm here to say that it's time to get 
> Haiku ready for the road.

I thought that we were actively planning for alpha1 actually. At least that
was one of the main targets/topics of our recent coding sprint for example.

> I'm using a patched version (to fix the first error) and stuck at 
> r30825   until these issues are resolved. But the conclusion is that 
> the build 
> (meaning complete cycle of build/install/test) has been broken for 8 
> days unless you have the time and inclination - and believe me, I 
> won't have the latter much longer - to fix it.

I am sorry to tell you, but I am unable to reproduce any of the issues you
mention. I have a clean tree at r30866 and did a clean build of the haiku-cd
target to investigate, but it boots just fine. Maybe you can attach your
UserBuildConfig to one of the tickets to see if a configuration option
triggers it.

> In fact it would be 
> easier to branch the code and finish the OS myself than mess around 
> further with what's being produced.

Wow, pretty bold statement. You realize that you discredit core developers
with that statement? Core developers that basically are the reason why Haiku
still exists and is at all usable. I'd just slow down a bit.

> The sensible thing to do now would be:
> ...

That is a way of looking at it. The point is that after a release, which one
remains to be decided (R1, alphas or betas), the development model will be
adjusted to not do main development directly in the trunk anymore. Branches
will most likely be used. But we are simply not quite there yet. Discussions
have been held about this. If you want to restart them, you should dig them
out of the archives, summarize them and start a new discussion based on them.
Or reply to one of the already open ones.

> Then we might all get some work done.

You always make it look like everyone was deliberately putting stones on your
way. But please decided what you want. Either you want to get your personal
work done, the TV driver I take it, then you should follow the suggestion to
simply not update so often. Or you want to move Haiku itself forward, which
means identifying and fixing bugs and regressions.

Regards
Michael

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