From 239af8fd065b8bc7a39678611bd3beb22fdc01f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:22:25 +0100 Subject: contributing/questionnaire: New page. --- contributing.mdwn | 3 +++ contributing/questionnaire.mdwn | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 contributing/questionnaire.mdwn diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index 2fe7328c..b5d7b8e5 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -35,3 +35,6 @@ See for details, for documents, in general and also this whole wiki, of course. + +Also, please spend some time with thinking about the items in this +[[questionnaire]]. diff --git a/contributing/questionnaire.mdwn b/contributing/questionnaire.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6402eb3a --- /dev/null +++ b/contributing/questionnaire.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] + +People often come to us and state that they'd like to help with the GNU/Hurd. +This is very good and very much encouraged: we're always looking for volunteers +to help with the effort! However, for things to eventually become productive, +we'd like every new potential contributor to read through the following list of +items and spend some time thinking about those. + + +* What areas are you interested in contributing to? + + Think a moment about this list: porting and extending existing software to + run on Hurd systems; work on existing or write new Hurd servers or + libraries; work on the standard C library; make Hurd stuff usuable from + other programming languages than C; work on the current Mach microkernel; + do research and development of a next-generation microkernel; help with + development of new Hurd libraries and servers on top of that. Those + projects are all within the *Hurd* topic, but are vastly different + projects. + +* How is your expertise about system and kernel programming? + + Sadly we don't have the ressources to teach you from ground-up. We will -- + of course! -- try to give answers to specific questions, but on substantial + parts of your contribution you'll have to work on your own. (Unless there + is someone who is already working in the same area, of course.) + +* Have you previously been working on Free Software projects? + + Are you used to the working-style Free Software projects bring with them? + Did you already contribute to other projects? What sort of contributions? + +* What is your motivation to work on the GNU Hurd? + + +Every new contributor is very much encouraged to take some notes about these +items and post them to the [[*bug-hurd*_mailing_list|mailing_lists]]. -- cgit v1.2.3