Hi, As promised in a previous email. Comments encouraged. I think there are things to write about, even if the percentage has not changed much.
I think the number of gnumach and hurd (bugfix/feature improvement) releases since July 2011 should be mentioned. Can somebody add these numbers/the text for it? Best regards, Svante
Comments encouraged: Add/remove/forgotten/etc. Thanks! Mailing list: [email protected] Last mail: July 2011 Subject: Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters Greetings, It is now one and a half years since the last "Bits from Debian GNU/Hurd porters[1]", it's time for an update on the port[2]. * Installation CDs The Debian Installer is included in the recent three CD set[3], now with a graphics and semi-graphics interface! A DVD is and a netinst iso is also available. For the impatioent we have a ready-to-go qemu image[4]. * GHM meeting At the Gnu Hackers Meeting in Paris in August 2011, Samuel Thibault presented "GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground" with a very good response from the audience. A slides[5] and a video[6] from that presentaion is available. * Wheezy release goal Since the ftp-master meeting in March 2011 considerable improvements have been made, and a technology release of GNU/Hurd with Wheezy as was made for kFreeBSD did for Squeeze is still the target. More information is available at the updated TODO list[7]. With respect to package porting only a few packages will remain at the ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org site, when all bugs reports with patches are attended by the Debian Maintainers. * Archive coverage Thanks to the efforts of various Debian/Hurd porters, the percentage of packages built for Debian GNU/Hurd is reaching about 71%, an increase by 3%. This can sound as a small imprevement since July 2011 but it is not. There are currently 1 serious, 52 important, 14 normal, 2 wishlist, 7 forwarded and 4 pending upload bugs, all with patches. When these have been properly attended, the percentage will incrrase considerably. The remaining 28% of packages are either waiting for other packages to become available (see [8] for a (big) graph of those relationships) or are failing for some reason[9]; a complete list of build failures can be found at [10]. To name some packages, we have Icewaesel, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc, and soon the whole Gnome and KDE suites. The autobuilders are keeping the pace relavitely nicely ad we have now a new kvm-based Debian buildd: ironforge.sceen.net. The sister project Arch Hurd has recently released a Live CD and have also DDE integrated to enable the use of up to date GNU/linux drivers for GNU/Hurd. * Developer machines exodar.sceen.net is a new Debian porter box and there is also a new public Hurd box, [email protected]. The strauss.debian.net machine is a DD-accessible box, and accounts can be opened to non-DD alioth members on request to [email protected] * Hardware support Work on the DDE layer to seamlessly integrate Linux 2.6 drivers in userland processes isin the intergation stage. Network card support is basically working on real hardware, and the overhead is quite low. Integration of other driver classes is also on the roadmap. for the Debian GNU/Hurd porters, Samuel Thibault Partial people list: (Please help me update names and tasks, Alternately this part should be removed.) Samuel Thibault : debian installer, autobuilders, glibc Olaf Buddenhagen, Gillem Jover : community, mentors Jeremie Koenig : glibc, openjdk Pino Toscano : KDE Emilio Pozuelo Monfort : Gnome Thomas Schwinge : GNU gdb, gcc Svante Signell, Gabriele Giacone, Tanguy Le Carrour : Package porting [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/07/msg00002.html [2] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd [3] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage [4] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz [5] http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf [6] http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv [7] http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd [8] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/graph-radial.pdf [9] http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/porting/guidelines/ [10] http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html
