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@@ -7,45 +7,40 @@ Two canonical status lists are available from the CVS archive:
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
- <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)
+`<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)`
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.
- * xkb driver for console (for international users)
- * kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap)
- * fixing fakeroot (it's buggy)
- * fixing tmpfs (it's buggy, Neal says it's Mach's fault)
- * adding posix shared memory (requires the io_close call to be implemented)
- * adding posix file locking (requires the io_close call to be implemented)
- * testing
- * find + various filesystems (are inode numbers for . and .. sane?)
- * ext2fs with other block sizes than 4096
- * --help and --version and --usage in all programs
- * I have seen ^V in some --help output, might be argp bug
- * Verify that all options are documented clearly, and that
- no unimplemented options appear
- * Is the short and long description in the help output correct?
- * Is the return value of all programs correct (eg, does main() return a
- sane value)
- * Is the suid bit correctly set for all installed programs?
- * Translators
- * Does settrans -g work? -fg?
- * Does fsysopts work? Does setting options with fsysopts work?
- * Does stat() work on all translated nodes and give proper data?
- * 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
- * new console is basically done
- * needs integration of course
- * X switching support
- * there is certainly more to do ...
+* xkb driver for console (for international users)
+* kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap)
+* fixing fakeroot (it's buggy)
+* fixing tmpfs (it's buggy, Neal says it's Mach's fault)
+* adding posix shared memory (requires the io\_close call to be implemented)
+* adding posix file locking (requires the io\_close call to be implemented)
+* testing
+ * find + various filesystems (are inode numbers for . and .. sane?)
+ * ext2fs with other block sizes than 4096
+ * --help and --version and --usage in all programs
+ * I have seen ^V in some --help output, might be argp bug
+ * Verify that all options are documented clearly, and that no unimplemented options appear
+ * Is the short and long description in the help output correct?
+ * Is the return value of all programs correct (eg, does main() return a sane value)
+ * Is the suid bit correctly set for all installed programs?
+ * Translators
+ * Does settrans -g work? -fg?
+ * Does fsysopts work? Does setting options with fsysopts work?
+ * Does stat() work on all translated nodes and give proper data?
+ * 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
+ * new console is basically done
+ * needs integration of course
+ * X switching support
+* there is certainly more to do ...
--
@@ -55,21 +50,65 @@ This is the wrong place for this but I'll put it here for now. Here's an [email
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:
- 0 - Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and
- --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts)
- 1 - Check if all translators handle fsysopts
- 1 - Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g"
- 1 - More tests of this kind
- 2 - Fix those of the above who don't work as intended
- 2 - Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as
- well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others)
- 1 - Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results
- 1 - Find more useful test suites to run
- 3 - Update INSTALL-cross
- 2 - Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them,
- look into the Makefile)
- 4 - Fix those who don't work
- 2 - Document all still undocumented store classes
- 2 - The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested
+<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Difficulty</strong></th>
+ <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Task</strong></th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 0 </td>
+ <td> Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Check if all translators handle fsysopts </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g" </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> More tests of this kind </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Fix those of the above who don't work as intended </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Find more useful test suites to run </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 3 </td>
+ <td> Update INSTALL-cross </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them, look into the Makefile) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 4 </td>
+ <td> Fix those who don't work </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Document all still undocumented store classes </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance.
-- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Oct 2002