Haiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2026

This report covers hrev59262 through hrev59355.

The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 5

Hello everyone!

We continue our exploration of old change requests on the Gerrit code review tool that have been waiting for several years for someone to pick them up and get them merged. There are currently 316 commits awaiting review in the code review tool. This is quite a bit down from the 350 at the end of last year. It looks like these blog posts are having some positive effect, and also some of the developers could spend a bit more time on Haiku during their winter break?

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2025

This report covers hrev59188 through hrev59261.

The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 4

Welcome to most likely the last blog post of the year!

We continue our exploration of old change requests on the Gerrit code review tool that have been waiting for several years for someone to pick them up and get them merged. There are currently 350 commits awaiting review in the code review tool. The oldest one is now untouched since early 2019.

First of all, let’s look at updates for the changes from the previous blog post in the series: one of them has found a new owner, and DriveSetup may soon get its long awaited menu to read and write disk images to partitions!

The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 3

Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 346 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldest one has not seen any comments since 2018.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, November 2025 (ft. Go)

This report covers hrev59111 through hrev59187.

The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 2

Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 353 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldest one has not seen any comments since 2018.

The Gerrit code review iceberg

Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 358 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldest one has not seen any comments since 2018.

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, October 2025

This report covers hrev59050 through hrev59110.