On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:05:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi! > > Thinking about the Gentoo GNU/Hurd (whatever..) project, it seems that > whereas Gentoo and Debian are "competing" projects, the Debian GNU/Hurd > and Gentoo GNU/Hurd share one goal: to port a lot of software. >
I'm not sure I agree that Gentoo and Debian are competing projects, but you're right, we do share a common goal in relation to the Hurd. Of course, for a while we're going to be playing some serious catch-up - Debian has, what? Five years of work behind their Hurd port? However we'd be happy to engage in mutual contributions. > It'd be interesting if we could discuss some ways of cooperation > between Debian GNU/Hurd and Gentoo GNU/Hurd projects for porting > duties. This way we'll avoid horrible things like reporting the > same bugs twice, discussing the same bugs twice and fixing the same > bugs twice. > > Some questions i come up with: > > - where to discuss a porting problem? debian-hurd was typicaly > used for that. a possibility is to use help-hurd for common porting problems > and the specific lists for the distro-specific bugs. or perhaps we > could create a common porting list? help-hurd seems appropriate for general discussion of porting issues, unless someone has a problem with that. > > - how do we share patches? there are a lot of usable patches in the > debian packages that haven't been forwarded upstream yet. there are > more of them pending to be applied in the debian BTS. In principle, a > Gentoo porter should look at these places if he/she wants to avoid > duplicating work, but it'd be interesting to define a "protocol" on > what to do with patches once they're made, to ensure everyone gets them. I agree, but I don't have any decent ideas for this at the moment beyond announcing patches to help-hurd/bug-hurd so those working on both ends can grab them. > > - what about API porting-related bugs in the Hurd and Glibc? the debian BTS > entries for hurd, libc0.3 and libc0.3-dev contain porting-related bugs. > (ala, "function foo(), needed for package bar, is broken or unimplemented") > maybe we should copy and forward them to the Savannah BTS? > > -- Collaboration on the Savannah BTS would be handy. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
