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Subject:    [haiku-development] Re: [RFC] Haiku R1/Beta2 branch?
From:       "Andrew Lindesay" <apl () lindesay ! co ! nz>
Date:       2019-11-24 9:48:46
Message-ID: 90effe2e-ce16-4af6-ab57-ba11d54201f3 () www ! fastmail ! com
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> and this is not a grandma friendly error. condition.  HaikuDepot needs
> to be much more polished than it is today.
...
> Perhaps we can add GCI tasks to have students address some of the
> pending issues with it?

Hello Scott;

I just downloaded r53597, installed it and opened HaikuDepot (HD) without any \
problems aside from the issue with crashing during window-resize -- I will try to \
look into that specific problem 15093/15419 once I get some time.  Regards 15493, \
could you please review the log output [1] to help diagnose the root cause.  Failing \
this, you could cause the error, capturing the trace for somebody else (probably me) \
to review.  It might be possible to show a better error message in this specific \
situation once it is understood what the error is, but first the problem needs to be \
understood and the log trace is essential for this because otherwise it a protracted \
guessing game.

I'm sure the community would be glad for more help with sorting out issues in HD.  \
Quite often it takes a considerable time-investment to understand a problem, the code \
base, the as-built structures and the trade-offs with various approaches.  For this \
reason I think that for people coming at the HD sub-project short-term or just \
wanting to get started it would be best to find some tickets that are cleanly \
isolated to a portion of the code outside the core or tickets that are not requiring \
a deep-dive to get into.

Tickets that would be good to re-test / verify to see that the problem still exists;

11317
11639
11891
12138
12307
13739
13947

Tickets that are likely to be good for beginners / students;

11674
11689
11813
12191
12320
13275
13807
14587
14588
14669
14725
15010
15012
15299
11773

A more sophisticated piece of work, but still isolated and well described;

15337

PS: I'm slowly making changes around user-login / signup at the moment so perhaps \
steer clear of any work in that area to avoid any clashes.

Regards.

[1] /system/apps/HaikuDepot -v trace


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