[haiku] Good news everybody -- contracts and more!
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: HAIKU <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:56:41 -0400
Hello all,
Thanks to everyone who contributed, we are able to provide both
Adrien and Pawel a second month of contractual development!
The announcement and some other news is posted on the website at
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2013-10-20_good_news_everybody_contracts_and_more
Here's the full text, for convenience:
If there was ever an example of the saying "Money talks and ...",
this is it. Since publishing the "HAIKU needs you!" article in late
August, over $5,000 has been raised! This is from 110 individuals who
made a combined 75 recurring monthly donations and 72 one-time
donations. The yearly total is soaring over $20,0000 with the help of
322 donors making 354 recurring and 322 one-time donations. *Because
of their efforts and generosity, we are able to finance another month
of contractual development for both Adrien and Pawel!* Thank you and
congratulations to everyone who helped!
Both developers will continue working on their individual contracts
-- Adrien Destugues (aka Pulkomandy) for WebPositive, WebKit and the
Services Kit and Pawel Dziepak (aka pdziepak) for CPU scheduler and
other CPU related features. Pawel's work is currently concentrated in
a "scheduler" branch of Haiku on github Adrien's work is landing in
Haiku's master branch, a "bnetapi" branch of WebKit on github, and
Haikuports bitbucket repositories. An early build of HaikuLauncher,
a barebones browser for testing the WebKit port, is available here
https://github.com/pdziepak/Haiku/tree/scheduler
https://github.com/haiku/haiku-webkit/tree/bnetapi
http://bb.haikuports.org/haikuports
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/haikulauncher-20131020.hpkg
As you may know, package management has been merged into the main
development line (the "master" branch) and are available in the
normal nightly images at haiku-files.org As with any large feature,
ironing out all of the wrinkles takes time. There are several ways
you can help:
* file bugs on dev.haiku-os.org
* contribute to Haikuports collection of build recipes
* repackage and publish existing software as .hpkg's
* engage in conversations on haiku mailing lists (for example the
general list [haiku] or the development related questions
[haiku-development])
In other news, another developer Julian Harnath (aka jua), has been
doing some excellent work and recently received commit access. One
example is fixing ticket #8007, which refactors the port subsystem
locking and alleviates various freezing issues. He has started some
improvements to MediaKit/MediaPlayer in another github branch,
"media". Initially he plans general overall fixes to the MediaKit,
the MediaPlayer filters and even some new filter nodes. Time will
tell where he goes from ahere.
https://github.com/orangejua/haiku/tree/ticket8007
https://github.com/orangejua/haiku/tree/media
Lastly onto finances. At this moment, there's about $18,000 USD in
funds. These are the immediate costs that will be paid off shortly:
* €4000 EUR for Oliver's package management contracts, which are
winding down.
* €2000 EUR for Adrien's first month of contracting
* €2000 EUR for Adrien's second month of contracting
* $2500 USD for Pawel's first month of contracting
* $2500 USD for Pawel's second month of contracting
* $400 USD for Ohio Linux Fest
* $100 USD for domain renewals
After those transactions, there will be $1200 USD at the end of
November. $1000 of that is kept on reserve for unexpected costs.
Do you:
* Help raise funds for a third month of contracting
http://www.haiku-inc.org/donations.html#online
* Look at funny cat pictures
http://lolcats.com/
* Check is computer on fire
https://www.haiku-os.org/is_computer_on_fire
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