Hi :) Quoting Thomas Schwinge (2013-04-07 23:53:37) > IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2013-03-19: > > <tschwinge> Do we have any suitable GSoC tasks for Debian GNU/Hurd? > <youpi> ah well, there are the debian ifup/ifdown and rc.d > integrations > <pinotree> sysvinit, you mean, or just rc.d? > <tschwinge> Oh right, the init system, that might be a suitable task. > <youpi> sysvinit > > Do we agree that's a sensible task. Just have to make sure the student > doesn't get the idea of directly going for systemd, > <http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/open_issues/systemd/>. ;-) > > Who can mentor and/or add the task to > <http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects>?
So this ended up in the wiki as 'Debian GNU/Hurd Debianish initialization' right? I'd like to apply for this task. I've used both Linux and Hurd based Debian systems for quite some time and I'm reasonably familiar with low level aspects of the system initialization on both systems. Back in the day when the d-i was not yet ported to run on Hurd, I created this live cd with a custom text based installer. The live cd part was inspired by the superunprivileged.org cd (I just noticed that this domain is gone, that's a shame, I always thought that this was the coolest hostname ever). I learned a lot from this experience and I was amazed how pluggable and powerful the Hurds architecture is. I do consider myself fluent in sh and c even though nowadays I try to stay away from those languages. But I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty if the need arises. I'm involved in the notmuch project and trying to be a nice upstream project I made sure that notmuch builds on the Hurd. I have two Debian/Hurd installations (no real hardware atm :( ) and haven't lost one for quite some time (the recent hurd-libs hiccup was fun and made me wish for a set statically compiled settrans &co). I also like the idea of getting more involved in the Debian project. I've been a happy user, occasionally filed a bug or helped to resolve issues. I'm also familiar with packaging of Debian packages, but I've never contributed directly to Debian. Well, what do you think? What do I have to do now? I already have a google account, I believe the next step would be to login to google melange and officially apply, right? Cheers, Justus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130417120645.7753.70...@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de