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authorGNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>2007-08-23 13:32:27 +0000
committerGNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>2007-08-23 13:32:27 +0000
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-# <a name="Debian_GNU_Hurd"> </a> Debian GNU/Hurd
+For how best to contribte, see [[contributing]].
-The Debian Hurd port maintains [a list of projects](http://alioth.debian.org/pm/?group_id=30628), both porting and general enhancements.
-
-# <a name="psmisc"> psmisc </a>
-
-The tools provided by the psmisc package are linux centric. Killall and pstree, for instance, require Linux's proc file system but could just as easily use Hurd's libps.
-
--- [[NealWalfield]] - 14 Dec 2005
-
-# <a name="tmpfs"> tmpfs </a>
-
-# <a name="ppp"> ppp </a>
-
-# <a name="unionfs_stowfs"> unionfs/stowfs </a>
-
-# <a name="_http_hurd_gnufans_org_bin_view_"> </a> [Improve Mach](http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Mach/GNUMachRevivalProject)
-
-# <a name="supermount_translator"> supermount translator </a>
-
-# <a name="user_level_drivers"> user-level drivers </a>
+This todo is primarily targetted at the Hurd proper
+and applications that rely on the Hurd interfaces.
+The canonical TODOs from the CVS archive:
+* [TODO file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain)
+* [Task file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain)
-Two canonical status lists are available from the CVS archive:
+* psmisc
-* [TODO file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd repository
-* [Task file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd respository
-
-<dl>
- <dt><a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200210/msg00035.html" target="_top">Welcome Note</a></dt>
- <dd> Introduction to GNU and the Hurd sent monthly to <nop>Help-Hurd@gnu.org. </nop></dd>
-</dl>
-
-<div align="right"> Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]], <br />[[SeenHurd]], [[WhoRunsGNU]], [[GnuHurdLiveJournal]]</div>
-
-----
-
-Here are some notes taken from an [IRC discussion](http://web.walfield.org/~hird/%23hurd-200209027) September 28th, 2002. The part of the log at which I am summarizing starts with
+The tools provided by the psmisc package are linux centric. Killall and pstree, for instance, require Linux's proc file system but could just as easily use Hurd's libps.
-`<marcus@18:26> wolfgang: I once made a list of things that are definitely to be done before a release. want me to write it here? (It's only on paper so far)`
+* tmpfs
+* ppp
+* unionfs/stowfs
+* supermount translator
-This list is intended to apply to "just the CVS of the [Hurd itself](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd)." It is specifically not intended to apply to GNU/Hurd and definately not Debian GNU/Hurd.
+Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]]
-**FIXME.** How out-of-date is this stuff? -- [[Main/DeviceRandom]] - 20 Jan 2007
+From Marcus, 2002:
* xkb driver for console (for international users)
* kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap)
@@ -66,7 +43,6 @@ This list is intended to apply to "just the CVS of the [Hurd itself](http://sava
* What about chown, chmod (some translators should pass this through to the underlying node, esp in /dev!)
* Does statfs give correct data?
* Are all inode numbers and link counts correct?
-* [one unreadable item on the paper]
* We also should have a "make check" test suite. We can add this once Jeff finished his automake patches
* pick up the other things
* pthread, definitely. Now that we are so close
@@ -75,13 +51,7 @@ This list is intended to apply to "just the CVS of the [Hurd itself](http://sava
* X switching support
* there is certainly more to do ...
---
-
-This is the wrong place for this but I'll put it here for now. Here's an [email about pthreads direction](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/hurd-devel/2002q3/000449.html) from hurd-devel mail list.
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Oct 2002
-
-Wolfgang also created a wonderful list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002 that I will quote here:
+Wolfgang list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002:
<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
@@ -143,5 +113,3 @@ Wolfgang also created a wonderful list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/piper
</table>
Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance.
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Oct 2002