On 5/2/2011 14:08, Adrien Destugues wrote:
Hello,
The purpose of this mail is to remember developpers that Alpha 3
should have been released 2 or 3 times since october...
I think it's time to get it done.
As the previous attempt didn't work, I'm going to try another
approach here, and use the exiting tools.
Looking at our Trac Roadmap (https://dev.haiku-os.org/roadmap), we
have currently 33 tickets open in the Alpha 3 milestone.
Going through them, it seems most do not actually deserve to be part
of alpha 3 :
#5838 Enabled ACPI , but cant install Battery Bar Replicant in
tray. czeidler bug normal Drivers/ACPI
R1/Development
#5843 ACPI empty battery slots showing up in battery applet.
Present battery is also missing. czeidler bug
normal Drivers/ACPI R1/Development
#5777 Kernel starts paging when writing to slow media
axeld bug normal System/Kernel R1/Development
#7078 Allowing shortcuts without the B_COMMAND_KEY modifier
leavengood enhancement normal Kits/Interface Kit
R1/alpha2
#4157 File Descriptor Disconnect Handling Broken axeld
bug high System/Kernel R1/pre-alpha1
#4974 Tracker cant see all files / folders on NTFS partitions
3dEyes bug normal File Systems/NTFS
#1607 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA
Controller (rev 80) marcusoverhagen bug normal
Drivers/Disk R1/pre-alpha1
#6824 ShowImage crashes after browsing thru many photos
phoudoin bug blocker Applications/ShowImage
R1/Development
#5214 [Intel_extreme] Wrong BPP on Intel GMA 950 axeld
bug normal Drivers/Graphics/intel_extreme R1/Development
#5293 Apperance work not correct darkwyrm bug
normal Preferences/Appearance R1/alpha1
#5543 resolutions > 640x480 don't work on Dell Mini 10 w/ GMA500
aka poulsbo gfx axeld bug normal
Drivers/Graphics/intel_extreme R1/Development
#5737 Installer does not enable virtual memory by default?
axeld bug normal System/Kernel R1/Development
#5786 ReadOnlyBootPrompt is too ugly pulkomandy
enhancement normal Applications/ReadOnlyBootPrompt
R1/Development
#5781 Changing keymap settings seems to work only second time
around axeld bug normal - General
R1/Development
#5849 Tracker freezes if on desktop are a lot of files [+30 and
more] axeld bug normal Applications/Tracker
#5863 media_addon_server crashes on shutdown axeld
bug normal Servers/media_addon_server R1/Development
#4315 PS/2 mouse and keyboard won't work on HP530 laptop
nobody bug normal Drivers/Keyboard/PS2
#5123 Kernel crash by Power off printer axeld bug
normal System/Kernel R1/Development
#5779 page fault after connecting USB mouse at Live-CD screen
axeld bug normal System/Kernel R1/Development
#5902 Alpha2 Trouble with AMD Sempron PC axeld bug
normal Servers/app_server R1/Development
This let us only 13 tickets open, that I consider big enough to lock
the release further. I selected them as bugs preventing the use of
the system at all, for a lot of people. This removes the following :
* Enhancement requests on software
* Crashes of software
* Hardware or driver related problems that don't prevent booting
#5474 [kernel] PANIC: got an in use page 0x8107c040 from the free
pages list mmlr bug normal System/Kernel
R1/Development
#5879 Unexpected exception in kernel mode - SpeedStep driver
czeidler bug normal Drivers/ACPI R1/Development
#4454 System locks up when inserting (or trying to mount?) CD
marcusoverhagen bug normal Drivers/Disk
R1/pre-alpha1
#5790 panic: out of ports, but sUsedPorts is broken axeld
bug normal System/Kernel R1/Development
#6723 Certain burned Haiku install CDs have issues with Installer
failing on Nightly builds/Live CD nobody bug
normal - General R1/alpha2
#7435 Nightly burned CD fails to boot and/or install to a
partition axeld bug blocker System/Kernel
R1/Development
#4050 ATA driver cannot recognize 2nd HDD nobody bug
normal Drivers/Disk R1/pre-alpha1
#4408 USB boot not working axeld bug normal
System/Boot Loader R1/pre-alpha1
#5539 Can't boot from LiveCD axeld bug normal
System/Boot Loader R1/alpha1
#5696 USB key doesn't boot up any more axeld bug
normal System/Boot Loader R1/Development
#5720 Cant boot instaler! axeld bug normal
System/Boot Loader R1/Development
#5815 KDL at boot nobody bug normal System
R1/Development
#5866 "multi_audio audio output" thread hogging cpu usage,
keyboard and touchpad don't work axeld bug normal
Servers/media_addon_server R1/Development
Out of these, some seems to be more or less duplicates (usb not
booting for example). They all revolve around the same thing.
I think we should focus on these tickets, have a look on them and
decide if they are worth getting fixed for R1a3 or could actually
wait another version. The choice should be made on this :
* How many users are affected ? I know the corrupted CDs seem to
affect a lot of people
* Is there a workaround ? Corrupted CDs may be work around by USB
booting (and vice versa...)
Once we get all these sorted out (either fixed or moved to beta1), we
can move on the testing phase : create an alpha 3 branch, build an
ISO image, check if it can be burnt, booted and installed from on
various hardware.
The next step is a testing run of a given nightly (the same that
would be the base of the branch). We send a link to it on
haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and ask people to try it out and see if they can
install it. We wait one week for feedback, see if there are any
blatant issues (corrupted CD images, installer crashing when
selecting some language, or something of that order). If people can
get to the desktop after installing, it's ok, we go for the release.
It's alpha software, people should expect it to have problems.
This release proposal should reduce the amount of work on the
development side to a minimum. I don't think a release coordinator is
needed on that side. If someone wants to apply for the role, it's
still ok. The main task will be coordinating the creation of the
release branch and the "golden master" nightly creation. Then, we
have to get the version tag updated in the branch, and rebuild the
optional packages to match it.
Timeline :
* Today to 16th of may : review of the bugs listed above, decision
about what to do with them
* 16 to 22 of may : fixing of the bugs that are not postponed (I
expect to see only few of them)
* 22th may : creation of alpha branch (unless we do that before and
merge the changesets)
* 1st of June : release!
If you have anything to say, please do so. But don't spend too much
time in discussing...
An Alpha 3 would be a good idea, IMHO, it should help attract a bit
more attention as well.
I was hoping to get my patch ( Ticket# 7445 ) in before then to make
it easier to test new decorators, but I suppose that really isn't
important in the grander scheme :-/
--The loon
