On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:57:41PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Perhaps there should just be another mailing for wild speculations about > random development ideas tangentially related to the Hurd development > effort. Then I would read that one when I was in that kind of mood. These > lists really exist for concrete discussion of real problems with the > existing code base and new code we expect to write in the immediate short > term to solve specific problems people are having with using the Hurd in > its current context. That is the kind of discussion I am usually in the > mood for when I have a little spare time to think about the Hurd. >
I agree, I myself don't have much time to spend on Hurd development. And I have to learn as I go along, and that slows me down as well. But I do have ideas that I'm not willing/can't work on right away (that's the hacking part) but that would profit from some discussions (that's the talking part). So that kind of list would be a good idea. For example it would redirect threads like the "filesystem-mimetypes extensions" that we had on debian-hurd a while back. Igor