news: not perfectly in time, but draft for the qoth 2011-q4 is done!

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-PREPARING THE NEXT Month of the Hurd
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 A month of the Hurd: *nix-based builds, *slab allocator*, and *life filesystem debugging*.
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-<!--basic structure of a MotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.-->
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-Samuel Thibault: Christmas gift: 
-
-Samuel Thibault: 
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-Samuel Thibault identified 
-
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-Richard Braun committed the last patch to mplanetas branch of the slab allocator
-work, for integration. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:
-
-    (22:30:39) braunr: there shouldn't be any noticeable difference with the
-      master branch
-    (22:30:46) braunr: a bit less fragmentation
-    (22:30:55) braunr: more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system
-    (22:31:02) braunr: there are debugging features
-    (22:31:06) braunr: it's SMP ready
-    (22:31:15) braunr: and overall cleaner than the zone allocator
-    (22:31:31) braunr: although a bit slower on the free path (because of
-      what's performed to reduce fragmentation)
-    (22:32:42) braunr: but even "slower" here is completely negligible
-
-**New porter box: exodar***
-Richard Brauh added Exodar, a new porter box. It is faster and more reliable, which facilitates testing and bug hunting: exodar.debian.net
-
-I/O Path Documentation [[hurd/io_path/]]
-
-Sergio Lopez documented his work on Better Memory Management and memfs: http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/user/Sergio_Lopez/
-
-Porting: 
-
-- Sergio Lopez: webkitgtk+: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html
-- Svante Signell: pax: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html abiword http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html syslog-ng http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html ecl http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html fakeroot http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00022.html daemon http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00025.html  procps http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00046.html
-- Samuel Thibault: packagekit: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html evolution http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html emacs23 http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00018.html gcc-4.7 http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00065.html iceweasel (firefox) http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00080.html 
-- Bouju Alain [submitted](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html) [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00084.html) to support cpuinfo in the /proc interface.
+This quarter Ludovic Courtès added a [Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00047.html), raising the count of Hurd distributions to 3: Debian, Arch and now Nix. His build is still pretty basic, but continuous integration is a great feature for testing images.
 
+Also he added a [modern Autoconf initialization](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00068.html), [allowed /hurd/init to be a symlink](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html) and made the Hurd [build with Savannah’s libc (2.14+)](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html), getting the Nix distribution even more towards the cutting edge.
 
-Debugging: 
-
-- Pino Toscano: recvfrom() with null http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html
-- Maksym Planeta: tmpfs http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html 
-- Samuel Thibault: libtool http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html mknod http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html  Fix POSIX 2008 visibility http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html sudo setresuid http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645285
-- Jim Meyering: gnu tools with user id 4294967295 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00094.html
-- Paul Eggert:  Add error-checking on GNU http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00130.html
-- Pino Toscano and Thomas Schwinge [improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html) the Hurds pthread implementation. 
-- Svante Signell: e2fsprogs quota fixes: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html
-
-
-Social network sites for GNU Hurd: 
-
-- Google+: https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#114942488385711891227/posts
-- identi.ca: http://identi.ca/group/hurd
-
-Guillem Jover [fixed Mach's int vs long discrepancy](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html), which takes us the first step towards porting the Hurd to x64.
+Samuel Thibault followed up with a [new debian disk set](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00095.html) as christmas gift, turned /dev/urandom into a [native translator](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html) and [identified](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html) three easy porting cases with solutions: 
 
-And as a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with the Hurd:
+- undefined reference to dl_foo: add -ldl for building
+- undefined reference to `main': missing gnu* case in the linking part of configure.ac or .in (pd-* packages are already being handled by their maintainer)
+- undefined reference to clock_gettime or crypt: add -lrt or -lcrypt
 
-    <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd
-    <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing
-    <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash
-    <youpi> with a reproductible scenario
-    <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà, ext2fs was working again
-    <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot
-    <youpi> just ext2fs restart :)
+These should help all those who want to help [[porting_packages|hurd/porting/]].
 
-<!--bug hurd and debian hurd done-->
+Maksym Planeta and Richard Braun committed [the last patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html) for integration of the slab allocator, making the memory allocator of GNU Mach SMP ready again. From IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:
 
-------
+>   (22:30:39) braunr: there shouldn't be any noticeable difference with the
+>     master branch  
+>   (22:30:46) braunr: a bit less fragmentation  
+>   (22:30:55) braunr: more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system  
+>   (22:31:02) braunr: there are debugging features  
+>   (22:31:06) braunr: it's SMP ready  
+>   (22:31:15) braunr: and overall cleaner than the zone allocator  
+>   (22:31:31) braunr: although a bit slower on the free path (because of
+>     what's performed to reduce fragmentation)  
+>   (22:32:42) braunr: but even "slower" here is completely negligible
 
-This month Ludovic Courtès added a [Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00047.html), raising the count of Hurd distributions to 3: Debian, Arch and now Nix. His build is still pretty basic, but continuous integration is a great feature for testing images.
+Also Richard Brauh added [Exodar](http://exodar.debian.net), a new porter box. It is faster and more reliable, which facilitates testing and bug hunting.
 
-Also he added a [modern Autoconf initialization](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00068.html), [allowed /hurd/init to be a symlink](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html) and made the Hurd [build with Savannah’s libc (2.14+)](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html), getting the Nix distribution even more towards the cutting edge.
+Additionally [[documentation_of_the_I/O_Path|[[hurd/io_path/]]]] was improved and Sergio Lopez documented his work on [[Better_Memory_Management_and_memfs|user/Sergio_Lopez/]] to make it easier for other hackers to work on the Hurd. 
 
-Samuel Thibault followed up with a [new debian disk set](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00095.html) as christmas gift, turned /dev/urandom into a [native translator](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html) and [identified](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html) three easy porting cases with solutions: 
+Our hackers also used the quarter for porting a good number of packages. Sergio Lopez took care of [webkitgtk+](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html), while Svante Signell from [Arch Hurd](http://archhurd.org) went on a porting rampage with [pax](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html), [abiword](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html), [syslog-ng](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html), [ecl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html), [fakeroot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00022.html), [daemon](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00025.html) and [procps](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00046.html) and the Samuel Thibault from [Debian GNU/Hurd](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) followed up with [packagekit](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html), [evolution](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html), [emacs23 ](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00018.html), [gcc-4.7](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00065.html) and [iceweasel (firefox)](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00080.html). Also Bouju Alain [submitted](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html) [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00084.html) to support cpuinfo in the /proc interface.
 
-- undefined reference to dl_foo: add -ldl for building
-- undefined reference to `main': missing gnu* case in the linking part of configure.ac or .in (pd-* packages are already being handled by their maintainer)
-- undefined reference to clock_gettime or crypt: add -lrt or -lcrypt
+Additionally many many bugs were found and squashed, by Pino Toscano ([recvfrom() with null](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html)(, Maksym Planeta ([tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html)), Samuel Thibault ([libtool](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html), [mknod](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html), [Fix POSIX 2008 visibility](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html), [sudo setresuid](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645285)), Jim Meyering ([gnu tools with user id 4294967295](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00094.html)), Paul Eggert ([Add error-checking on GNU](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00130.html), Pino Toscano and Thomas Schwinge ([improved pthread](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html)) and Svante Signell ([e2fsprogs quota](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html) to list only the ones who posted their fixes on the mailing list. 
 
-These should help all those who want to help [[porting packages|hurd/porting/]] to 
+Also Guillem Jover [fixed Mach's int vs long discrepancy](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html), which takes us the first step towards porting the Hurd to x64.
 
-[our hackers] …
+And there are now social network sites for GNU Hurd on [Google+](https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#114942488385711891227/posts) and the AGPL licensed [identi.ca](http://identi.ca/group/hurd), to make it easier to stay in touch.
 
-Mainly thanks to …
+As a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with the Hurd:
 
-Additionally …
+>    <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd  
+>    <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing  
+>    <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash  
+>    <youpi> with a reproductible scenario  
+>    <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà, ext2fs was working again  
+>    <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot  
+>    <youpi> just ext2fs restart :)
 
-And …
 
-So if you want to [reason for contibuting to the Hurd],
-please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe already grab the [[source
-code|source_repositories]].
+So if you want to join us in our journey to realize more of the promises of the architecture of the Hurd, please [[get_in_contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe already grab the [[source_code|source_repositories]] and have fun hacking on free software!
 
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