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-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 and the [challenges](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00062.html) he bested. In a similar track, Samuel Thibault [merged the slab branch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00010.html), finishing Maksym Planetas GSoC work on a better memory allocator.
-
-Also Pino Toscano improved the POSIX compliance of the Hurd [for nanosleep](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00130.html) [ptsname_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00122.html),
-[getlogin_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00121.html), [getgroups](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00120.html) and [sendto](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-06/msg00009.html), making it easier to port POSIX programs, and Samuel Thibault [added Thread Local support (TLS)](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-05/msg00046.html), further improving the standards conformance of the Hurd and paving the way for C++11x.
-
-Samuel Thibault, Ludovic Courtès and Thomas Schwinge reduced the barrier of entry into hacking the Hurd.
-
-As part of this, Samuel prepared [dde in incubator](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00037.html), making about half the Linux network drivers compile on the Hurd. Also he added the [netdde debian package and testing notes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00038.html).
-
-Ludovic added [a continuous testing framework](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html) using a Nix-based GNU QEMU image. Since Hurd can now be built using „Nix“ (german for nothing), how about asking a colleague to revise his image of the Hurd as vaporware and showing him vapor chugging away on a compile of your favorite free program? If you don’t want to install the Hurd yourself, you can also check the [automatic tests on hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master) ([background](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00104.html)).
-
-Thomas on the other hand [moved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00063.html) the translators [cvsfs](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=cvsfs/master) and [smbfs](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=smbfs/master) into the incubator git repository, as well as [libfuse](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=libfuse/master), 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”.
-
-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.
+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
+and the
+[challenges](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00062.html)
+he bested. In a similar track, Samuel Thibault
+[merged the slab branch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00010.html),
+finishing Maksym Planetas GSoC work on a better memory allocator.
+
+Also Pino Toscano improved the POSIX compliance of the Hurd
+[for nanosleep](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00130.html)
+[ptsname_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00122.html),
+[getlogin_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00121.html),
+[getgroups](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00120.html)
+and
+[sendto](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-06/msg00009.html),
+making it easier to port POSIX programs, and Samuel Thibault
+[added Thread Local support (TLS)](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-05/msg00046.html),
+further improving the standards conformance of the Hurd and paving the
+way for C++11x.
+
+Samuel Thibault, Ludovic Courtès and Thomas Schwinge reduced the
+barrier of entry into hacking the Hurd.
+
+As part of this, Samuel prepared
+[dde in incubator](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00037.html),
+making about half the Linux network drivers compile on the Hurd. Also
+he added the
+[netdde debian package and testing notes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-02/msg00038.html).
+
+Ludovic added
+[a continuous testing framework](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html)
+using a Nix-based GNU QEMU image. Since Hurd can now be built using
+„Nix“ (german for nothing), how about asking a colleague to revise his
+image of the Hurd as vaporware and showing him vapor chugging away on
+a compile of your favorite free program? If you don’t want to install
+the Hurd yourself, you can also check the
+[automatic tests on hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master)
+([background](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00104.html)).
+
+Thomas on the other hand
+[moved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00063.html)
+the translators
+[cvsfs](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=cvsfs/master)
+and
+[smbfs](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=smbfs/master)
+into the incubator git repository, as well as
+[libfuse](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=libfuse/master),
+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”.
+
+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.
Ludovic Courtes, Maksym Planeta, Samuel Thibault and Richard Braun
took a dive into the core of the Hurd. Ludovic
@@ -87,8 +130,8 @@ Roland McGrath
for upstream inclusion, reducing the maintenance load for getting
recent improvements of libc.
-And now, as a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with the
-Hurd; IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-02:
+And now, as a final note, we want to share a story about real-life
+debugging with the Hurd; IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-02:
<youpi> yay GNU/Hurd
<youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing