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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index cfc4dc0e..95bf2441 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 -Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, +2014 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 @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Here is a list of small hacks, which can serve as entries into the Hurd code for people who would like to dive into the code but just lack a "somewhere to begin with". -* Some translators do not support fsysopts, such as `remap`. +* Some translators do not support [[hurd/fsysopts]]. * Make pfinet OK with the ethernet device going away. This would be a very nice feature: being able to just restart the ethernet driver; we've just not taken the time to fix it yet, but it shouldn't be very hard. The code begins @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ far better to let `exec` simply set the name and record it in `task_t`. to add an RPC. glibc needs to be recompiled against the updated mach.defs to get access to it from userland. exec would probably call it from `hurd/exec/exec.c`, `do_exec()`. +Also see the discussion on [[open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name]]. * Write a partfs translator, to which one gives a disk image, and which exposes the partitions of the disk image, using parted, and the parted-based storeio (`settrans -c foos1 /hurd/storeio -T typed @@ -125,13 +126,13 @@ For guidelines, please have a look at the dedicated [[porting_page|hurd/porting] ### Debian GNU/Hurd -[[!template id=note text="""#### Goal: Debian Wheezy Release Canditate - +Along with the official Debian "wheezy" release (but not as an official Debian +release), in May 2013 the Debian GNU/Hurd team released [[Debian GNU/Hurd +2013|news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013]]. There is a goal of getting Debian GNU/Hurd into shape for a technology -preview/release candidate with Debian Wheezy (expected towards the end of 2012 -or beginning of 2013). +preview for integration as a proper Debian release candidate. -The *to do* list is on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>."""]] +The *to do* list is on <http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd>. The following missing packages/missing functionality block a lot of other packages, and are thus good candidates for porting, in order to increase |