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?
One, Samuel. 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. The most active hacker for a long time has been Samuel, Schwinge has done very little codewise in total.
