Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Feb 2006 23:50 UTC, submitted by Fireball
ReactOS released news today regarding the project's status, recent confusion and future development. The news item is slightly confusing in itself though, but the the gist is this: there is no code inside the ReactOS SVN repository that has been directly pasted from Windows source code. However, it might be that some people had access to Windows source code and used it as inspiration-- these developers should mark their code as 'dangerous', and these sections will then be audited by a 'clean' person. Currently, 15% has been audited and can be declared 'clean'.
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2005-06-30
In answer to #1, from the wiki page (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Audit):
1. A function is deemed to have been implemented in a non-clean manner if
- "unknown" arguments given values
- functions for which there is NO DOCUMENTATION
- functions with no test cases available either in ReactOS or somewhere on the internet
- functions with undocumented magic numbers
- functions with excessive gotos
NO DOCUMENTATION means it cannot be found on MSDN, Google, sysinternals, osronline, any book published by Microsoft Press or any other publication.
2. The following does not count
- functions of 5 or less lines of code
- functions for which every basic unit corresponds to a clause in the official
- functions which mimic those implemented in other libraries and that work similarly