On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:21:30PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > [...] and new people joining the project get immensly > confused on what exactly they should work on since everyone is saying > `work on what you want'. It is a whole `no care attitude' which is > simply destroying the project.
I can only agree to that. I have been thinking about doing some Hurd hacking in the past, but after seeing that a lot of patches which should have been commited long ago still have not been applied it seemed like the Hurd is quite dead. I am sure there are quite a few people out there who would love to contribute to the development of the Hurd and have not done so because it looks as if also patches which are both fine and needed have not been applied. Speaking of myself I did not do any hacking on the Hurd because I do not want to write code that is not going to be applied for whatever reasons. In my opinion, what the Hurd needs right now, and first of all, is a maintainer which applies patches and, once that works, some sort of advertising to attract new hackers.
