[haiku-development] R1alpha 2 : time to get the ball rolling ?
- From: PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:01:35 +0100
Hello devs,
It's been almost 6 month since the alpha 1 release now. It seems we've
reached the point where when someone asks for support on #haiku on irc,
the first thing he is asked is to upgrade his install to a nightly build
revision. I guess this mean we've gathered the feedback we wanted from
r1a1 in terms of bug hunting and features testing.
Haiku has seen a lot of improvements in these 6 month (see
http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/ImprovementsSinceAlpha1 ). The plan was to
have the following releases happen quite quickly after this one, but no
one stepped up to set up a release plan.
The alpha1 release was an experiment in term of project organisation to
see if we could handle a release properly, with all the website
slashdotting, iso image mirroring, issue report flow and other related
potential problems. Now that it's done, we can set up a proper plan
setting the future milestones all the way to R1.
Here is the list we set up at BeGeistert :
http://picasaweb.google.de/markerben/BeGeistert21#5394316382178705490
This message is an attempt to get such an effort started. So, below is a
proposal for such a milestone set. It may or may not suit you, so feel
free to improve on it.
R1 alpha 2 :
* Already a good set of improvements since the alpha1. Some things that
could still be missing :
* Finish localization of every app in Haiku (lots of work, but it will
allow people to contribute catalogs)
* Unencrypted Wifi support (mostly done already, mmadia submitted some
patches that should be commited to load firmwares and enable drivers by
default
* Web browser (this is the "killer feature" for this release)
* ACPI enabled by default, in order to get it some exposure. Of course it
needs to be tested in dev. builds for some time before, and maybe give an
option to disable it in the bootloader ?
R1 alpha 3 :
* Package manager
* Encrypted Wifi
* IRQ routing
R1 beta 1 :
* Driver testing, and overall testing
Basically the beta should be feature complete R1, but with bugs still
hiding.
R1 :
* Just fix bugs found on beta
As for the timing, well, this plan adds quite a lot of features in alpha2
so it'd need quite more time.
I'm waiting for your advice on this...
--
Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
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