From 18b1ba68113fba545ea2d78ccc82b6391ebbd6e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GNU Hurd wiki engine Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:01:40 +0000 Subject: web commit by NealWalfield: Move todo items from Hurd/GNUHurdStatus to here. --- Hurd/ToDo.mdwn | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) diff --git a/Hurd/ToDo.mdwn b/Hurd/ToDo.mdwn index 0e6ef567..6a02e27a 100644 --- a/Hurd/ToDo.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/ToDo.mdwn @@ -19,3 +19,129 @@ The tools provided by the psmisc package are linux centric. Killall and pstree, # supermount translator # user-level drivers + + + +Two canonical status lists are available from the CVS archive: + +* [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 + +
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Welcome Note
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Introduction to GNU and the Hurd sent monthly to Help-Hurd@gnu.org.
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Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]],
[[SeenHurd]], [[WhoRunsGNU]], [[GnuHurdLiveJournal]]
+ +---- + +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 + +` 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. + +**FIXME.** How out-of-date is this stuff? -- [[Main/DeviceRandom]] - 20 Jan 2007 + +* 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 ... + +-- + +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: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
DifficultyTask
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
+ +Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance. + +-- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Oct 2002 -- cgit v1.2.3