Batisseur: The End?

GSOC 2011 is over and I’ve had some time to cool off from last minute stress. A few awesome tools for haikuporter will be coming soon. I’m going to work on rounding off those tools. The builddrone project somewhat works but is not of a very high quality. The queen needs love with respect to databases and or data structure. I may revisit it later, but I’d love for someone with relevant experience to implement something better. Jenkins reporting and distributed uploading may make it into haikuporter along with gpg signing (According to GPG availability, last time I checked gpg doesn’t work on Haiku.). There are a few interesting peices of code I may cut off into packages for others to easily depend on (Bitbucket and Github commit post parsing anyone?)

VBox Guest Additions: A slightly late final progress report

As everyone has probably gathered from the first sentence of most of the other posts, GSoC 2011 is now over. I accomplished some of the goals I had for the last quarter, but was unable to get GCC2 support to work. The compiler is different enough to not work with the same options, and even after adding a GCC2 tool definition to kBuild I found that it was too old to compile some of the VirtualBox code. Various workarounds I tried for this proved unhelpful, so the additions will currently only compile and run on a GCC4 or GCC4 hybrid Haiku.

What Will Happen....

You probably know that i have not passed the GSoC final evaluation. Although i am a bit discouraged (it’s natural i think), as said from the begin, it’s not my intention to abandon my project. Money wasn’t my first motivation to work, and it will not be in any case.

It’s just a short post to tell you what is the state of my code, and about which i’m working on.

Haiku Down Under 2011 Report

It was a rather overcast day in Brisbane, Australia: Home of the Fourth Annual Haiku Down Under Virtual Conference for Haiku Users and Developers. It was virtual, in the respect, that the event was streamed live over the Internet once again using the uStream service.

We accept (and regret) that this service requires Flash, but at present, we still haven’t found any other services that are capable of delivering the same features. One of these days, we hope to use a Haiku friendly service.

This year, HDU 2011 (#hdu2011) was hosted from one of the ITEE boardrooms at The University of Queensland where I, Phil Greenway (Sikosis) was joined once again by Mark Patterson (BeMark) and newcomer Daniel Devine.

UVC Driver: Final Report GSoC 2011

The Google Summer of Code for 2011 is over now for me. The final state of the UVC driver project while very far from perfect is at least at a point where incremental improvement can be made. Literally the day (maybe 2 days, depending which timezone you’re in) before the “firm pencils down” date I finally managed to get data all the way from the camera to the screen. The decoding of that information is totally wrong at this point, but coloured pixels show up on the screen and they appear to react when things move in front of the camera. Success?!

GSOC 2011: Final Milestone Report

Hello all,

GSOC 2011 is over, and the SDL 1.3 for Haiku is over- for now. I intend to continue working on the project, although I probably won’t start again for a while, as the recent errors have been frustrating and I need to relax a bit.

The almost-most-recent-version is available at https://bitbucket.org/antifinidictor/haiku-sdl-1.3/; I had some problems with my computer and haven’t been able to upload the most recent version yet, which just has some changes to which functions are static and which aren’t.

Language Bindings for the C++ API: Fourth Quarter Report and Post-GSoC Goals

The following classes have been implemented; some methods and functions have not been implemented due to dependencies on unimplemented classes, but the classes below are otherwise complete:

*These don’t actually contains any classes, Errors and TypeConstants expose constants; Beep exposes functions; FindDirectory and NodeMonitor expose constants and functions.

Contacts Kit, quarter-term report

In these weeks i have improved the contacts kit core in order to have enough support for the formats supported. The vcard and people translators can now translate and exchange many types of field, though photo and groups aren’t yet supported.

Main functionalities of the classes : BRawContact Their functionality is to deal with the BTranslatorRoster and keep track of basic informations, like the final format. The final destination is represented as a BPositionIO object. Basically the class find a suitable translator when initialized and provide two methods : Commit() and Read(). The first has as argument a BMessage that contain Flattened BContactFields, the second translate the source file (that can be a B_PEOPLE_FORMAT, B_VCARD_FORMAT, B_CONTACT_FORMAT) into a BMessage and return it.

Batiseur: not a bed and breakfast

In these last few (official) weeks of Google Summer of Code I’m focusing on the meat of my project. This means that side features like the achievements, scoreboard etc will be ‘frozen’ as-is until after GSOC. I’m planning on rounding them out, just not yet. The main work will be on the builddrone working properly and testing/signing. A major but was in the camlistore python library, I’ve fixed it and will change how it works a little.

Language Bindings for the C++ API: Third Quarter Report and Fourth Quarter Goals

The following classes are now mostly implemented; there are some methods that cannot be implemented yet because they require objects that are not yet implemented, but otherwise these classes are complete.

*Errors doesn’t actually have any classes, it merely exposes a lot of constants to the target language.