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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index c006e554..1745b61a 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Every single contribution is very much encouraged. There are various ways to contribute; read up on contributing to... -[[!toc levels=3]] +[[!toc levels=4]] If someone of you is lurking around here and would like to contribute, but feels she / he could do so better under formal mentoring: please @@ -77,31 +77,47 @@ documents. <a name="porting"></a> ## Porting Packages -Debian is currently the Hurd distribution of choice among Hurd users and -developers. +Please [[contact_us]] before spending a lot of time on the following porting +tasks: some work may already have been done that you can base your work upon. -Here is a -[[list_of_Debian_packages_that_need_porting|hurd/running/debian/porting]]. +For guidelines, please have a look at the dedicated [[porting_page|hurd/porting]]. -You can also just [[install_Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] and find what -doesn't work or suit you and try to improve that. -You can also have a look at the [List of failing packages](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt). +### Debian GNU/Hurd -For guidelines, please have a look at the dedicated [[porting_page|hurd/porting]]. +[[!template id=note text="""#### Debian Wheezy Release +There is a goal of getting Debian GNU/Hurd into shape for a proper release with +Debian Wheezy (expected towards the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013). -## Open Issues +The *to do* list is on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>."""]] -There is a list of [[open_issues]]. This list includes everything from bug -reports to open-ended research questions. +The following missing packages/missing functionality block a lot of other +packages, and are thus good candidates for porting, in order to increase +archive coverage: +* umount functionality in busybox +* gtest +* hdf5 +* hyperestraier +* sane* +* ghc (ghc6 and ghc7) +* [[open_issues/gnat]] +* ruby1.9.1 -## Debian Wheezy release +Here is a [[list of packages that need porting|hurd/running/debian/porting]]. -We target the Debian Wheezy release! +You can also just [[install_Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] and find what +doesn't work or suit you and try to improve that. + +Or, you can pick one from the [list of failing +packages](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt). -The *to do* list is on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>. + +## Open Issues + +There is a list of [[open_issues]]. This list includes everything from bug +reports to open-ended research questions. <a name="insta-dev-env"></a> diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn index dec41583..e8a0428a 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn @@ -67,4 +67,9 @@ And … * <http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/hurd-not-default> + * LWN + + * Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters, + id:"20110721172827.GF4057@const.famille.thibault.fr" + """]] diff --git a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn index 4586a8e6..e5c8c160 100644 --- a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn +++ b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn @@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ Then you setup the translator /hurd/hello in the file/node hello. After that you check the contents of the file, and the translator returns "Hello World!". -To finish it, you tell the translator to go away from the file "hello" via "settrans -g hello" and verify that now the file is empty again. +To finish it, +you remove the translator from the file "hello" +(and tell any active running instances to go away) +via "settrans -g hello". +Having done that, verify that now the file is empty again. ### Transparent FTP diff --git a/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn b/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn index be9cef50..cbf039b0 100644 --- a/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn +++ b/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ In the following, we try to clear the situation up a bit. want to help, please see our [[contributing]] page and the *to do* list maintained on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>. - * *GNU Hurd developers want the Linux kernel to die*. {X} **Wrong**. All of - us are happy users of the Linux kernel, every day, and GNU/Linux is the - free operating system of choice, which we're using ourselves (unless - sitting in front of a GNU/Hurd system). We don’t work on the GNU Hurd due - to any hatred against the Linux kernel or even Linus; we work on it because - of the [[additional capabilities and clean design|advantages]] that it + * *GNU Hurd developers want the Linux kernel to die*. {X} + **Wrong**. All of us are happy users of the Linux kernel, every + day, and GNU/Linux is the free operating system of choice, which + we're using ourselves (unless sitting in front of a GNU/Hurd + system). We work on the Hurd instead of Linux because of the + [[additional capabilities and clean design|advantages]] it provides. * *Java support for GNU/Hurd is in the works*. (./) **True**. Jérémie diff --git a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn index 18fc257e..4309494d 100644 --- a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics. The [[hurd/Critique]] should have some more on this. +[*Event-based Concurrency +Control*](http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/talks/presentations/T37_nobackground.pdf), +Tom Van Cutsem, 2009. + # Alternative approaches: |