Haiku Alpha 1 Status Whiteboard
This page acts as a status whiteboard for the Haiku R1 alpha 1 release. It should contain a list of tasks that need to be completed.
Discussion 7th of August
On the the 7th of August, Axel Dörfler started a discussion on the things to do in the thread Haiku R1/alpha decisions. Here's a summary of that discussion. Axel called for:
The aim of this thread should be to compile a complete list of things we want to have in the first alpha release, be it feature or software.
Update: there is a page with all the proposals.
Features
- BGA:
Speaking in general terms, the important thing, even for an alpha, is that we have no know bug that can cause data corruption. As long as we reach a point where we are reasonably certain that this is the case, everything else can be attributed to it being an alpha. :)
- What about calling it DR1? Fredrik Modeen)
- Welcome package
- Initial idea: (Zenja Solaja)
Even though the Alpha is primarily intended for developers (and should probably be called Developer Alpha to avoid confusion), there will be a lot of hobbyists who will like to try Haiku after hearing about it in the press. Even if they're fortunate enough to have 100% supported hardware, they will stare at an empty desktop and say "OK, now what?"
- User Guide
- Links on the desktop
- Initial idea: (Zenja Solaja)
- GCC 2/4 hybrid (Donn Cave)
I don't know where your plans for gcc4 are at this point, but I personally am keenly interested in the rumored gcc2+gcc4 variant, whether in the alpha distribution itself or as a build from source option. So I'm hopefully reminding that self-hosted gcc-4 will want to be part of the package, too.
Software
- BGA:
Whatever we decide to include, it should be as complete and integrated as possible. For example, fixing Firefox drag & drop would be great. Also I am more in favor of native applications than ports, but there are cases where ports will be required
- Development tools (including subversion).
- Currently: gcc 2.95.3, autoconf-2.61, automake-1.10.1, bison-2.3, flex-2.5.35, jam, libtool-1.5.26, texinfo-4.11 and Perl 5.10 (Rene Gollent)
- Firefox
- OSS (Salvatore Benedetto)
- BePDF (Michael Lotz)
- julun:
Are we allowed to ship the original BeBook as we have it on haiku-os.org?
- Stephan Assmus:
Personally, I'd love to see a few more media applications (sound), but I would also be ok with reducing it to just development related apps. I don't know how you guys feel about WonderBrush in that case. Hopefully this doesn't come across the wrong way, but maybe it is good to include a few more bigger apps besides just Firefox to show the system can support them. I'd be willing to provide an unlocked Haiku only version of WonderBrush.
- Webkit (Ralf Schulke)
- Vision (Ralf Schulke)
- CVS (scott mc)
- Git (scott mc)
- Python (scott mc)
- Box (scott mc)
Distribution
- julun: ISO or Live CD?
- Michael Lotz: Live USB stick
Updater
- BGA
Sorry, but an updater is *ESSENTIAL*. Even if not fancy. By updater I mean a way for the user to easily check if there are fixes and to apply then without losing data or having to completely reinstall the system.
Status Updates
The status updates give an overview of the progress that is made towards alpha 1.
Blocker issues
These need to be fixed in order to release the alpha.
Total of 4 open ticket(s).
Critical issues
If all the blocker items are resolved, these should be evaluated whether or not they block the alpha release.
Total of 3 open ticket(s).
High priority issues
This is a list of items with things that would be very much appreciated for alpha 1, but they do not block the release.
- #215
- Problem with special characters
- #347
- Imposible to boot from CD
- #1822
- Implement and test creating and deleting partitions in DriveSetup
- #1855
- Glibc wide char functions are disabled
- #2030
- Dead Beef in Address Space Area List
- #2638
- input_server's screen_saver filter crash in ScreenSaverFilter::Filter()
- #2682
- Network instability issues since net_timer changes
Total of 7 open ticket(s).
