On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote:
>
> We can't expect the HURD hackers to do everything, they're busy right
> now. We, the less involved who none the less love the idea of the HURD
> have to be prepared to offer ideas and philosophy.
Ideas and philosophy are useful at times, but the only thing that drives us
forward currently is work. We have a huge overhead of readily available
ideas for the Hurd, and too few people writing actual code, finding
reproducable bugs, porting favourite software packages, and so on.
I can understand that it is hard to find an initial point to attack the
problems. There are too many, too underdocumented, and you never know where
to start. I think I have a good overview on the situation by now, and I am
happy to give you suggestions if you tell me what you think you would like
to do (most importantly) and what you think you can manage in your available
hurd hacking time. Areas of interest is more important than expertise, but
don't overload yourself. It is faster for the gods of the code to answer
questions and command you around than to perform all the necessary steps
on their own.
(It takes considerably less time to write an email answering some basic
approaches to a patch than working out a readily available patch and
submitting it upstream, and keeping track of it).
Thanks,
Marcus
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