hurd d-i: roadmap update

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@@ -19,38 +19,48 @@ I will be keeping track of my progress on this page.
 
 ### Latest news
 
-  * *busybox*:
-    patches [posted](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html).
-    I need to test them on kFreeBSD,
-    then submit them upstream and to #323670.
-  * installation images boot with the following changes:
-      * rebuild hurd-udeb from with the latest pkg-hurd patches
-      * use busybox from my osports-debian branch (see link above)
-      * tweak the d-i image build scripts
-      * the symlink /lib/ld.so -> ld.so.1 needs to be created somehow
-        (youpi mentionned it being the job of libc0.3-udeb I think)
-      * fix the poll() issue in libdebian-installer
-        (patch to be submitted soon),
-        also there is some hurd doxygen short-circuiting stuff
-        there which does not apply any more and prevents is to build.
-      * initrd support coming soon (BTW gnumach does not like gcc-4.4),
-        for the time being it needs to be fed to qemu as a hard drive
-        (with some more space added to avoid it from becoming full)
+  * current status:
+    [busybox](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html),
+    [genext2fs](http://bugs.debian.org/562999),
+    [libdebian-installer](http://bugs.debian.org/584538);
+  * [modified packages](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/unstable) and
+    [images](http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer) published;
+  * mach initrd support underway:
+    I get the ramdisk with `$(ramdisk-create)` in the boot script,
+    `getstat()` and `read()` should be ok I believe,
+    but for some reason `ext2fs copy:device:rd0` complains that
+    it cannot get the "hypermetadata".
+    Also to be noted:
+    grub2 has a 16MiB limit on the size of multiboot modules,
+    and does not have a `modulenounzip` command anymore,
+    I guess the former would be ok for the forseeable future,
+    but I will need to fix the latter.
 
 ### Roadmap
 
-#### Week 2 (2010-05-31 to 2010-06-06)
+#### Week 3 (2010-06-07..13)
 
+* busybox: submit upstream and to #323670,
+  fix stty/stat/ipcs on kFreeBSD,
+  generally port more stuff,
+  notably (u)mount/swaponoff.
+* mach ramdisks: implement more device ops,
+  fix the remaining problems
+* grub2: modulenounzip or something
+* libc0.3-udeb: investigate it not having `/lib/ld.so -> ld.so.1`
+* netcfg: make it work on Hurd somehow (port `busybox ip`?)
 * see what breaks in the installer and fix the problems one by one
   (install-time netcfg, cdrom detection, whatever)
-* start working on mach initrd support
-
-#### Week 3 (2010-06-07..13)
-
-* try to get the busybox changes merged upstream
-  and integrated into the debian package
 * tweak the hurd debian package to handle
   what native-install used to be required for
+  [apparently there's already some relevant stuff done in the postinst,
+  it might just work though maybe something is missing,
+  or some special code would be needed in the installer
+  to enable say, /servers/socket/local before anything
+  is attempted in the chroot]
+* roadmap: redistribute all that stuff in the following weeks
+  (or maybe, reorganize the roadmap around milestones instead of weeks,
+  with expected completion dates, as suggested by antrik)
 
 #### Week 4 (2010-06-14..20)
 
@@ -97,3 +107,22 @@ Hopefully the summer would not be over yet...
   (BTW would there be a mean to detect this from the libdiskfs bootstrap code
   and report it ?)
 
+#### Week 2 (2010-05-31 to 2010-06-06)
+
+* *busybox*: patches [posted](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html).
+* *libdebian-installer4*: [ditto](http://bugs.debian.org/584538)
+* started working on mach initrd support
+* the installation images could boot into the main-menu
+  with the following changes:
+      * rebuild hurd-udeb from with the latest pkg-hurd patches
+      * use busybox from my osports-debian branch (see link above)
+      * tweak the d-i image build scripts
+      * the symlink /lib/ld.so -> ld.so.1 needs to be created somehow
+        (youpi mentionned it being the job of libc0.3-udeb I think)
+      * fix the poll() issue in libdebian-installer
+        (patch to be submitted soon),
+        also there is some hurd doxygen short-circuiting stuff
+        there which does not apply any more and prevents is to build.
+      * feed the initrd as a hard drive in qemu
+        (with some more space added to avoid it from becoming full)
+