Hello!
Time flies fast, and soon we are going to face the deadline (next status
meeting) by which we decided to create a RC of the upcoming release.
And, there are some problems.
I will start from good stuff. Since the last meeting took place, quite a
few regressions were fixed, and interesting bugs have also been closed.
This is very good and I appreciate your efforts.
However some problems remains, and here is where your help is urgently
needed! For the current milestone (0.3.14), there are 3 blocker
regressions and 2 big buckets of issues - ldr rewrite regressions and
shell32 rewrite regressions.
From blocker stuff, the most important is the heap-related one.
Mephisto provided a good explanation here
(http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5857), and we need
someone with a fresh eye to look into this problem. N.B. Please don't go
into "let's fix some unrelated stuff in the heap code just to make it
better". Look strictly into the specified bug and try to spot the place
where the heap lists are getting corrupted.
Anyone volunteers to have a look?
LDR regressions: there are relatively many of them, but all are
more-or-less nicely fixable because of the new, good LDR code. Alex -
maybe you could please devote a bit of your time to check the code and
see if that fixes some of the regressions?
shell32 regressions: I already see some improvements being committed,
please continue this way.
We can make a good 0.3.14 release only if we act as a team now. It's not
someone, it's YOUR help which matters. Testers are already doing as much
as they can, retesting issues, providing newer debug logs, and other
other things. Now it's time to act and fix regressions before moving
further. It's just stupid to move further, if a rewrite introduces new
bugs instead of fixing existing. I know how hard it is, but let's finish
smaller steps and hence move forward.
There is no way forward at all if old bugs are stacked and new
regressions are introduced all the time. We can't bring in new good
changes (wine syncs, 3rd party code syncs, arwinss, whatever else) until
0.3.14 is ready, and 0.3.14 is not ready until blocking regressions are
fixed. As simple as it is.
Thanks for reading and I hope you understand.
With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.
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