Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Aug 2009 09:34 UTC, submitted by moochris
I had been following the mailing list for the Haiku project the past week with growing interest. The topic of discussion? Why, the alpha release, of course! What needs to be done, who needs to prepare what, and most importantly, what schedule are they going to settle on? Well, after numerous insightful back-and-forths, the community has settled on a schedule.
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Member since:2009-08-17
"There's too much focus on icons, web pages and sugar. I couldn't care less about these things right now. I know that in an open source project, people tend to work on what they want to, but some management is always possible in order to direct focus.
I seriously doubt that any degree of management or directed focus will turn an illustrator or web dev into a competent C++/kernel developer (or vice-versa, for that matter). "
You obviously haven't seen the Google Tech Talk on Haiku. The core developers stressed icons, cursors and other completely non-kernel things more than anything else.
Member since:2005-10-17
You obviously haven't seen the Google Tech Talk on Haiku. The core developers stressed icons, cursors and other completely non-kernel things more than anything else.
You obviously haven't seen it either, because that is totally untrue. And now it's my turn to say that I know what I am talking about: I was at the talk, in person, and in fact helped create the slides used at the presentation.
Member since:2005-07-06
"I seriously doubt that any degree of management or directed focus will turn an illustrator or web dev into a competent C++/kernel developer (or vice-versa, for that matter). "
You obviously haven't seen the Google Tech Talk on Haiku. "
Incorrect.
The core developers stressed icons, cursors and other completely non-kernel things more than anything else.
While I can't re-watch it right (dialup), my recollections match koki's.
Member since:2006-06-09
First, Haiku is not a kernel but an operating system. There is no point at focusing only on kernel side.
Second, they stressed icons *format*, *builtin* cursors *overlay* and several graphics *support* features because Haiku is, yes you guess it, NOT only a kernel.
In the last few hours, several commits were on the "kernel" thread scheduling policy. Considering they don't even notice your remarks, is that enough *kernely* for you?
Last but not least, feel free to jump with us.
Be our guest.
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2005-07-06
I seriously doubt that any degree of management or directed focus will turn an illustrator or web dev into a competent C++/kernel developer (or vice-versa, for that matter).