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diff --git a/news/2012-q2.mdwn b/news/2012-q2.mdwn index 732c773a..4f151383 100644 --- a/news/2012-q2.mdwn +++ b/news/2012-q2.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. <!-- This is just a skeleton. Use it to create a new QotH. --> -A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2012: *GSoC*, *barrier of entry* and *porting*. +A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2012: *GSoC*, *barrier of entry*, *core* and *porting*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else=" @@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ else=" [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" +### GSoC + This quarter Jeremie Koenig released the final [report](http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/user/jkoenig/java/report) -on his **GSoC** project Java on Hurd along with a summary of his changes +on his GSoC project Java on Hurd along with a summary of his changes and the [challenges](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00062.html) he bested. In a similar track, Samuel Thibault @@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ making it easier to port POSIX programs, and Samuel Thibault further improving the standards conformance of the Hurd and paving the way for C++11x. +### Barrier of Entry + Samuel Thibault, Ludovic Courtès and Thomas Schwinge reduced the barrier of entry into hacking the Hurd. @@ -74,13 +78,17 @@ reducing the barrier of entry to improving them, so integrating cvs and samba in the filesystem and using FUSE translators can be stabilized more easily. Also he [improved the Hurd build system](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00087.html), -making it easier to get in: “running autoreconf is all you need”. +making it easier to get in: + + “running autoreconf is all you need” Additionally Roland McGrath [merged many libc changes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-05/msg00033.html) for upstream inclusion, reducing the maintenance load for getting recent improvements of libc. +### The Core of the Hurd + Ludovic Courtes, Maksym Planeta, Samuel Thibault and Richard Braun took a dive into the core of the Hurd. Ludovic [fixed invalid port deallocation in `symlink'](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00013.html) @@ -101,6 +109,8 @@ in the deepest core of the Mach, Richard improved memory mapping [with a red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), which should speed up memory access. +### Porting + As in the previous quarters, we also saw lots of ported packages, including Richards work on [libpcap](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00059.html) |