On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:57:10PM +0200, Dirk Ritter wrote:
> > OTOH, I think that of the current sites about the Hurd, each
> > one can serve a specific purpose without much overlap.
>
> Let's put it this way - I am all for people who put any kind
> of effort in something GNU-related but if the contribution
> is substantial then where is always the risk of duplicated
> efforts sooner or later - a waste of ressources I absolutely
> dislike, hence my point of view. I also have doubts - will it
> work? Will they actively seek coordination or will they rather
> prefer to ejoy the freedom of doing their own thing to each
> others particular liking?
Well, I can only say that we all keep in touch with each other, and
lack of coordination is only indicating lack of time, not missing
agreement or lack of good will.
> I won't care if there were thousands of people doing something
> HURDish but that is not the situation we are in. What's worse
> - the situation we are in only changes slowly, so based on
> what happened over the years I would estimate that there won't
> be radical changes for some time to come. It's better now
> because of your efforts with Debian, but GNUmach and the core
> HURD don't seem to change much. (I'm not complaining - it's
> just the usual headache I get if I think of the number of
> core developers involved.)
There won't be dramatic changes until GNU 0.3 is released. If someone wants
to help with this -- debug, debug, debug :) [for example, the ftpfs server
is slightly unstable, nfs/nfsd is reported to have bugs, and there is still
something funny going on at lengthy compiles].
> > I started doing this, and will continue to do it when I have
> > some spare time.
>
> So you still find some timeslices for this sort of thing?
> Wouldn't have expected this - well - so much the better.
Not currently, but generally, yes.
Last time I went through the email archive I was enjoying to read through
reports of dozens of bugs which were fixed a long time ago. I don't want
to miss this a second time :)
Thanks,
Marcus
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