Re: is the new

[Barry deFreese]

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Sorry guys, life has really gotten in the way for the last few months and 
probably for another
year or so... :(

Barry

On 3/6/2013 5:38 PM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As Barry's zenhost, the Xen dom0 that is, or rather was, hosting, amongst 
> others, snubber, the
> machine behind , has now been down for more 
> than half a year
> already, with no immediate hope of getting it back in service, and Richard, 
> on the other hand,
> has been more than willing to begin hosting, on his darnassus machine, a new 
> instance of our
> web pages/wiki conglomerate, we have then been working, again already a month 
> ago..., on
> setting that up, and now I finally got around to finishing this transition.
>  has been updated, and 
>  in particular 
> again tells a true
> story about how to work on the pages.  In short, 
>  is the
> new .
> 
> 
> Grüße, Thomas
> 

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RE: [Google Summer of Code 2013] - Mozilla Rust language bindings

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:07:39 +1300, "Nolan Tunnicliffe"  
wrote:
> I don't mind where a Rust port to Hurd is discussed. To get some of 
> the technical answers regarding Rust though you may need to ask
> on reddit.com or maybe the rust-...@mozilla.org. Although I will
>  research what I can. I'm not a language developer myself.
> 
> I'm not a student so I can't participate in the GSOC myself.

Oh, then I had totally misunderstood that part -- I though it was you
suggesting a GSoC project you want to work on yourself, not you
suggesting a GSoC project for someone else to work on.  :-)

> As I
> understand it anyone can suggest a project though. I am willing
> to begin with investigating a port of Rust, with your help.

Of course, the project itself is not tied to GSoC, so, yes, you're
welcome to continue working on that.  Likewise, you're of course welcome
to continue "lobbying" on the Rust side in case a student (or Rust
developer, of course) is interested in this project, too.

(As you surely have noticed/guessed by my more-or-less absence of a few
weeks), I won't be able to spend a lot of time working on this myself,
but I as well as others from our small team will always try to provide
answers to specific questions.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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is the new

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

As Barry's zenhost, the Xen dom0 that is, or rather was, hosting, amongst
others, snubber, the machine behind , has
now been down for more than half a year already, with no immediate hope
of getting it back in service, and Richard, on the other hand, has been
more than willing to begin hosting, on his darnassus machine, a new
instance of our web pages/wiki conglomerate, we have then been working,
again already a month ago..., on setting that up, and now I finally got
around to finishing this transition.  
has been updated, and
 in
particular again tells a true story about how to work on the pages.  In
short,  is the new
.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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anonfs: a tmpfs without default_pager

[Sergio López]

Hi,

Some days ago, I came across this tmpfs derived translator I was
working on, which replaces the use of default_pager with a pool of
anonymous memory. I've fixed some pending issues, and updated it to
compile with current Hurd libraries (replacing cthreads with
pthreads). Now it works, but it needs much more testing.

In addition to the backing store replacement, I've used anonfs to test
a trick that avoids dealing with memory objects by breaking libpager's
mechanics, serving read/write requests reading directly from the pool
(as it serves data from memory, it doesn't require caching). It still
implements part of pagers functionality to support mmap'ed files, but
only for reading.

If you want to play with it, you can find it here: https://github.com/slp/anonfs

Sergio.

Re: topgit maintainership

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:56:10 +, Robin Green  wrote:
> On 2013-03-03 23:15, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: 
> 
> > But yeah, please go ahead and care for topgit. Maybe someone else still
> > has interest in it and wants to help?
> 
> OK: https://github.com/greenrd/topgit 
> 
> Please
> send pull requests and file issues! 

Cool!


For the record, us GNU Hurd folks are still using TopGit, too: primarily
for maintaining our glibc topic branches, as described on
.  (Feel
free to poke at  if
you'd like to see non-trivial TopGit-using repository;
tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker is the "master" branch.)  All these topic
branches are to be polished and eventually merged upstream, but as that
takes time, the TopGit approach -- as clumsy as it is -- helps.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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