You're right. Working on a short-term version and a long-term version in
parallel is not absurd, IF you already have a complete, usable, stable
system and people are using it.
That isn't the case with the Hurd. Not many people use it, and not many
people will use it until the improvements come that will only come with
major progress. Supporting legacy development just splits your resources and
makes it so the inevitable takes longer.
Once again, I totally agree with you and I repeat, till we
fix/focus on our organizational problems, nothing good can emerge
from current development (sorry to think/to say that, it is not
targeted at current active Hurd developers).
Xavier
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