Hi, I've recently been doing more with the Hurd, and I'm wondering how I can best contribute to the effort. I have very little kernel/driver hacking experience, I'm afraid. However, I don't mind writing documentation, and (as you can tell :^) I've been building some packages recently that I'm interested in.
Is this a good way to help out? If so, what docs need to be worked on most (out-of-date or incomplete)? And what packages would it be productive to fix up so they build? I'm probably not the best person do to a large porting effort or to fix really low-level problems, but I'm glad to help if I can. I suppose I'm asking if there's a central docs coordinator or working list, and a list of most-requested packages. I've been thinking to myself that an end-user HOWTO/FAQ would be helpful. I just discovered this doc-in-progress today: http://seinfeld.arrowstreet.com/docs/using_the_hurd.html which is along these lines. The current install doc by Neal Walfield is super, but IMHO it could be expanded on with more topics and more in-depth explanations and step-by-step instructions, which are really important for new users. It's been my experience that the Hurd is suitable now for basic day-to-day use by hobbyists that want a system to tinker with and run as a small-scale server. If we can help people like these get the Hurd running -- get the system installed and configured, get networking and X working, and get a dial-up PPP interface working -- it may be possible to get more people contributing to the effort(?) I've found several old lists of links (some links outdated and some dead), some newer lists, and have only recently discovered the Hurd Building Guide (www.nongnu.org/hbg/hbg.html) and the Hurd Twiki (hurd.gnufans.org). Would a meta-list of lists of links be useful? Just thinking out loud here.... Thanks :^) Clemmitt _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
