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author | https://me.yahoo.com/a/g3Ccalpj0NhN566pHbUl6i9QF0QEkrhlfPM-#b1c14 <diana@web> | 2015-02-16 20:08:03 +0100 |
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diff --git a/open_issues/contributing.mdwn b/open_issues/contributing.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7ae742f0..00000000 --- a/open_issues/contributing.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] - -This should be integrated into [[/contributing]]. - ---- - -Every now and then, people show up who have an inward urge to contribute to the -GNU Hurd, but have some difficulties about how to do that. - -For example, IRC, #hurd, 2010-10-06: - - <rah> I find it difficult to find the will to contribute to the hurd while hurd != hurd-ng - <pochu> hurd-ng? - <pochu> ah, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/ng.html - <pochu> rah: you may want to work on achieving that then - <rah> pochu: I'm not in a position to do OS research - <antrik> rah: if you are not into OS research, why do you need it to be ngHurd? :-) - <rah> antrik: I don't want to work on software which I know is already obsolete - <tschwinge> rah: My position on that can be found here; you may want to think about it. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-07/msg00111.html - <antrik> rah: the existing Hurd implementation is not any more obsolete than any other large software project - <antrik> there are always things that could be redone in a better way some time in the future - <antrik> but we have to start somewhere - <antrik> software development is a dynamic process - <antrik> trying to come up with a perfect design before you write any code will never lead anywhere, ever - <rah> antrik: of course, but when you know your start is wrong, have identified its problems, and are in the process of designing a second attempt, working on the first seems pointless - <antrik> rah: well, do you know all these things? because I do not - <antrik> what the experiments with new Hurd designs proved so far is that nobody is in a position to claim, "I have a better design" - <antrik> it's not hard to come up with a design that is better in some points -- but it's damn hard to come up with one that's not lacking in others - <antrik> the existing Hurd design is actually the only one which we *know* to work - <antrik> while research on improving the design is certainly beneficial, it's not like there is something new ready to replace the existing design at any moment - <antrik> and frankly, I'm more and more convinced that only iterative changes can ever result in any real improvement - <antrik> (and doing these changes requires a certain momentum, which we will never gain unless we actually have something usable first) - <LarstiQ> rah: afaik, not much is being done of designing another attempt - <rah> antrik: yes, I know all these things |