Hello,
The new alpha coming soon.?
I desire see it.
I’m guessing at least two things need to happen first, Pawel’s scheduler branch needs to be merged and banged on for a while, and the recently discovered stability problems need to be fixed (see tickets #10249, #10279).
A new release within three months seems unlikely to me.
A new release this year seems possible.
There is a lot stuff wich needs to be in place before Alpha5.
E.g. the packagemanagement forces a lot applications to be repackaged.
Also a lot of stuff needs to be fixed
You can follow the stuff wich needs to be fixed here:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/roadmap
and here:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/timeline
Until A5 just try the new nightly http://www.haiku-files.org/haiku/development/
But be aware because of the canges with the packagemanagement this will breakt you former haiku installation.
[quote=luroh]I’m guessing at least two things need to happen first, Pawel’s scheduler branch needs to be merged and banged on for a while, and the recently discovered stability problems need to be fixed (see tickets #10249, #10279).
A new release within three months seems unlikely to me.
A new release this year seems possible.[/quote]
You scared me, or maybe I should say I scared myself when I read that when very tired, and my brain confused this, with when the next beta release would be out. OK for alpha that makes sense. Have a good one.
The nightly development releases are almost as stable as the last alpha release. Whenever there have been updates and enhancements things get broken and we see a lot of crashes along the way, but the end result is looking like it will be well worth the effort.
“You’ve got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette”
Considering the limited number of developers and users at this point, is there any way people like myself can be utilized by the developers for testing various parts of the system? i.e. regular users would be tasked with testing applications or drivers using a guideline or set of procedures devised by the developers.
There have been few tentative steps of formalizing the testing process before, but up to now nothing really has come out of it…
That leaves us “mere” users to do what we’ve always done: Trying to be a welcome community, filing tickets for issues we discover while every-day-using Haiku and going through the bugtracker to update tickets. When we’re able to, we can make a small monthly donation. If we speak another language natively, we can help with translations. If we can code (maybe not good/confident enough for work on Haiku itself) we can work on 3rd party apps. If our coding isn’t good enough for that, maybe writing recipes for haikuports can be an alternative to bring apps, tools and libraries to Haiku that in turn can bring more, bigger apps, tool and libraries to Haiku.
Also, I’m sure Haiku Inc. would love to have more helping hands for their administrative work.
Regards,
Humdinger