Call to Arms: Haiku Code Drive 2008
Manette.be - May 16th, 2008
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Yesterday Jorge G. Mare presented the Haiku project named Haiku Code Drive 2008. Some time ago Haiku made known that 5 students were selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code. I remember having read that more students were willing to get involved in GSoC but were not selected. This is exactly the goal of this project: setting up something to allow those to join the CoSD: Crew of Summer Developers :-) So, they proposed the remaining students if they would go for their proposed project if they were given $2,500 stipend each. The agreed students as well as their proposed project were summarized on this page: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/haiku-code-drive-2008/applications ; The money is to be raised from the community, this means us !And, because us means you and me, I made my contribution some minutes ago. Your turn now :-) To be in sync with GSoC we only have until May 29 to contribute, so don’t wait, donate what you can now, support the effort ! Program details and a tentative calendar can be found at this page: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/haiku-code-drive-2008 From 22nd to 29th of May a poll will be held to decide to which student(s)/project(s) the raised money will go. How many students depends on you ! Donations are PayPal based so if European people out there are willing to donate but can’t afford to have a PayPal account, I propose to be used as a converter :-). Send an email to HaikuCallToArms08@manette.be for more details. Have a nice day !
Hey, every now and then you just feel like posting ;) As reported on Le Buzz back in February and picked up by DeBug today TuneTracker has acquired the rights and sources of SampleStudio.
SampleStudio is a commercial - and high quality - two way audio editor for the BeOS family and was previously developed by Xentronics, also known from the imaging application Refraction. TuneTracker systems plans to add recording ability and update the interface and performance. SampleStudio will then be re-released for sale. For further development TuneTracker/Dane Scott is looking for a BeOS developer with experience in the audio field, for contact info view the original post at Le Buzz. I truly admire Dane Scott from his ongoing trust in the Be community, remember that TuneTracker systems is one the last-longing and most active companies that produce software for our beloved platform!
Spotted on Haiku-OS.org, Kevin Musick of Teldar Corporation has donated the source code of their “BeServed” network filesystem/filesharing server (and client) to the Haiku project. To quote from the Haiku-OS.org post (or, more accurately, to quote their quoting of Kevin Musick):
This is great news, and it’s the second announcement of a formerly-commercial BeOS app going open source’d in the past few months (counting the release of the Jabber for BeOS code back in March).
I’m way behind the curve on this story (even more so than usual), but it’s notable enough to still be interesting: a former Be Inc. employee by the name of Michael Alderete wrote a blog post last fall detailing his experiences attempting to give away 13 used BeBoxes. Or should that be BeBoxen? Not only did Alderete have absolutely no trouble finding takers, but a single person ended up with all thirteen machines - so much for the notion that “thirteen” is unlucky. So if you own a BeBox and need parts, you now know who to pester. Or if you’re like me and haven’t been lucky enough to obtain one, you now know whom to envy.
Developer “Cyan” released a new app on BeBits back on April 22nd: TubePositive. The concept is very clever - the TubePositive interface is just a small window that you can drag a URL (or Net+ bookmark) onto, along with a button to copy text from the clipboard. When that’s done with the URL of a youTube video, TubePositive will load the video inside VLC. So far, the app reportedly works in R5, ZETA, and Haiku (always a bonus) - and since it only requires a youTube URL, it works with any BeOS browser. It’s nice to see a method that lets us watch youTube in BeOS / Haiku once more, after the last method apparently stopped working. And I have to admit that I get a sense of perverse satisfaction from seeing a “modern, web 2.0-ified” site used with a browser intended to view HTML 3.0 sites.
Just in case anyone encountered bizarre errors on the site this morning, the reason was that I finally caved in and heeded the “Upgrade Now!” notifications in WordPress. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly (even though it’s now telling me there’s a new point release available) - but if you run into anything that’s broken, please post a comment. And just in case everyone isn’t completely sick of hearing about my adventures with data loss / attempts at data recovery, here’s a brief update. After corresponding with Axel Dörfler by EMail, I still haven’t managed to recover more than about 1GB of data (out of more than 100GB). That said, I do still appreciate the time that Axel put into trying to help - and I can’t think of any other instance when a developer has contacted me to offer help (much less released a new version to address the problem I was having). In the meantime, I’ve done a re-install of R5 Pro onto a spare drive and have been slowly tracking down “essential” apps and getting getting my setup back to the state it was in before the hard drive troubles. Incidentally, does anyone have (or know where I might find) copies of the apps FWorkspaces and Universal Scroller 1.8?
The news:As reported by Thom Holwerda of OSnews, there was recently some constructive chat on the mailing listabout how Haikuware’s Haiku distribution should conform to Haiku Distribution Guidelines. Karl vom Dorff made a pretty good work into achieving conformance and the result is Senryū.
Senryū is the new name of what was previously known as Haikuware Superpack. It is based on haiku pre-alpha code and contains applications and development tools (since haiku is “self-hosting” from several weeks now). Two flavors are available as VMware(tm) images the Personal Edition and the Developer Edition. If you’d like to know more aboutthe meaning of the name have a look here. More about Senryū, downloads, etc. at Haikuware.com. The philosophical question:But again, there still is the long time existing question among the community of whether or not it is time to have this kind of distribution, and at this moment in time (i.e. based on pre-alpha quality software)… You’ll find on the mailing list (this thread) as well as in the OSnews article’s comment section source for reflection. What can be noticed today is that both Haikuware and Haiku-os.org, in their differences of opinions, act in a way they think will help Haiku. Koki (Haiku-os.org):
Karl vom Dorff (Haikuware.com):
My personal thinking is that as long as people are smart enough (yeah, maybe this is the problematic assumption Without starting a flame war, your advice is welcome in the comments.
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. After testing failing binaries, I filed bug reports, which led to bugs being uncovered in Haiku, which led to Haiku becoming more stable and Haiku’s vision of being binary compatible inch closer to its goal. This is what I hope for with these disk images.”