[haiku-development] Re: UI discussion (was "WebPositive misleading tool tip on new tab")
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:29:12 -0500
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes and lets start R2 now, waiting for R1 to finish just stalls the whole
> project. I think the R1 BeOS compatibility goal served the project very well
> to get to a certain point but now it just slows it down :(
>
> I'm for an official R2 developer branch. That would give developers who are
> more interested in new features a better platform.
Whoa there, once we hit beta we'll have to open up an R2 branch.
Technically we already have started some R2 features such as 64-bit
support. We're certainly getting closer to R1 now. Once we're through
Ingo and Oliver's contracts and GSoC 2013 (assuming we get in) we
should really buckle down and seriously start talking beta.
Remember this document:
https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/FutureHaikuFeatures outlines what are
"must have" R1 features. Wifi and package management were voted must
have, everything else is pretty much a "nice but not required"
feature.
But, if Ryan wants to start working on Deskbar for R2, I say let him,
it's a perfectly valid project at this time. We are going to need to
come up with some guidelines at some point though so we don't run into
a "second system effect" where we try to fix all of the deficiencies
of the previous system at once. I prefer evolutionary advancement over
sweeping improvements. Sure, they don't look as sexy on paper, but,
real improvements gets made in the process.
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