> Why the FSF or the GNU project does not designate a project > leader ? Why is there no visibility on this project for any > external eye ? What about an official *up to date* website (with > all needed informations to attract new hackers) ? ...
I also think so. to me it seems like Hurd not important to GNU Project, so i stopped reading Hurd User Guide and playing with Hurd on Qemu. it is pretty much experience of mine that Hurd has organizational problems and till then they are solved it will not make any difference to work on technical side. I agree in that the Hurd project has some organizational issues. But, just my oppinion, those issues maily comes from a lack of capable hackers, and from a lack of _actual_ work. There are many people reading the Hurd User Guide, the Hurd Hacking Guide, the OSF Mach books, etc. But, how many people you know that is able to actually hack gnumach? From these mach-capable hackers, how many of them are _actually_ hacking gnumach? Some years ago there was a spanish Hurd community. We were three mach-hacking-capable hackers plus several interested hackers using the system and willing to collaborate. We organized a Hurd Meeting (a technical one) hoping we could transmit our knowledge about Mach and Hurd programming to these hackers. Well, the group died a few months later. The meeting didnt work. Many more lines complaining about the state of the Hurd project has been written than lines of code trying to solve it. Still, there are organizational problems. I think the project need a refresh. I would appoint Thomas Schwinge as the unique maintainer for both the Hurd and gnumach. He seems to be the most active hacker doing real work. He seems to enjoy working in the actual Hurd kernel (not in HurdNG or something like that). He could make a new website updated with clear directions and development procedures in http://hurd.gnu.org. etc. I would politely ask Brinkman, Bushnell and Neal to pass the baton to him. They seem to be working in other projects such as HurdNG, that is not the Hurd anymore since the basic design has changed. I may be wrong, so just my oppinion :)
