Hello dear community.
I propose to make a vote on the haiku-os website.
Because I think it is necessary and important to have a vote.
What functions are necessary and which are important to modify.
There should be a petition-based decision-making, on the basis of which the vote is conducted. In a good optimizing, management structure, for its development.
I don’t wanna be rude or anything but it’s already been done for R1 literally ages ago, see: FutureHaiku/Features – Haiku
(And this one for Alpha 1: R1/Alpha1Proposals – Haiku)
Personally I don’t see the need for a new poll as the R1 one covered all things one would generally ask for in an OS, but maybe I’m wrong.
You also have a way to vote for a ticket that you find important.
Well, 2010 was a long time ago. The R1 poll actually states that 64-bit support is “Unscheduled”, yet here we are! Today we would ask if continued 32-bit support was really necessary (and most folks here would vote “yes” to that, I know). In 2010, webcam support didn’t even come up for discussion, yet today we are all dependent on tele-conferencing. ARM support? RISC-V support? Those weren’t even on the horizon yet.
But, to get back to the original suggestion, there’s little point in demanding something as a community if we don’t have someone with the skills, the time and the determination to get it done. I might love to see webcams working in Haiku, but driver development is way above my paygrade.
On dev.haiku-os.org, you can upvote and downvote tickets. So we now have a continuous voting system, and no real need for a poll like we did in 2010. The results from that one were to determine what should go in R1, and these goals have been reached (and a few more) since then, allowing us to enter the beta phase (bug fixing)
Maybe we’ll do another when we start R2. Until then, there are no big goals, but the developers still have pleinty of work, and their own ideas about what to fix (now is agood time for performance improvements, reductions of memory usage, and the like).