From c6a1758b78140a19132261ac560d61d485891073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GNU Hurd wiki engine Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:07:58 +0000 Subject: web commit by NealWalfield: Update status. Move todo list to Hurd/ToDo --- Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn | 142 +++++------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-) (limited to 'Hurd') diff --git a/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn b/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn index 305b99fa..8bc348ff 100644 --- a/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn @@ -1,127 +1,15 @@ -Unfortunately, this page is very outdated. For the latest status you need to check the [[MailLists]] or [[HurdIRC]]. I know that from hanging out on IRC today (Feb 29, 2004) Marcus was uploading a new [[Mach]] binary package to update the old one in the debian archive. Work still continues on the new [[HurdConsole]]. Progress overall is slow due to the technical expertise required for many tasks and the lack of resources. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Mar 2004 - -Two canonical status lists are available from the CVS archive: - -* [TODO file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd repository -* [Task file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd respository - -
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Welcome Note
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Introduction to GNU and the Hurd sent monthly to Help-Hurd@gnu.org.
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Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]],
[[SeenHurd]], [[WhoRunsGNU]], [[GnuHurdLiveJournal]]
- ----- - -Here are some notes taken from an [IRC discussion](http://web.walfield.org/~hird/%23hurd-200209027) September 28th, 2002. The part of the log at which I am summarizing starts with - -` wolfgang: I once made a list of things that are definitely to be done before a release. want me to write it here? (It's only on paper so far)` - -This list is intended to apply to "just the CVS of the [Hurd itself](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd)." It is specifically not intended to apply to GNU/Hurd and definately not Debian GNU/Hurd. - -**FIXME.** How out-of-date is this stuff? -- [[Main/DeviceRandom]] - 20 Jan 2007 - -* xkb driver for console (for international users) -* kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap) -* fixing fakeroot (it's buggy) -* fixing tmpfs (it's buggy, Neal says it's Mach's fault) -* adding posix shared memory (requires the io\_close call to be implemented) -* adding posix file locking (requires the io\_close call to be implemented) -* testing - * find + various filesystems (are inode numbers for . and .. sane?) - * ext2fs with other block sizes than 4096 - * --help and --version and --usage in all programs - * I have seen ^V in some --help output, might be argp bug - * Verify that all options are documented clearly, and that no unimplemented options appear - * Is the short and long description in the help output correct? - * Is the return value of all programs correct (eg, does main() return a sane value) - * Is the suid bit correctly set for all installed programs? - * Translators - * Does settrans -g work? -fg? - * Does fsysopts work? Does setting options with fsysopts work? - * Does stat() work on all translated nodes and give proper data? - * What about chown, chmod (some translators should pass this through to the underlying node, esp in /dev!) - * Does statfs give correct data? - * Are all inode numbers and link counts correct? -* [one unreadable item on the paper] -* We also should have a "make check" test suite. We can add this once Jeff finished his automake patches -* pick up the other things - * pthread, definitely. Now that we are so close - * new console is basically done - * needs integration of course - * X switching support -* there is certainly more to do ... - --- - -This is the wrong place for this but I'll put it here for now. Here's an [email about pthreads direction](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/hurd-devel/2002q3/000449.html) from hurd-devel mail list. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Oct 2002 - -Wolfgang also created a wonderful list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002 that I will quote here: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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0 Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts)
1 Check if all translators handle fsysopts
1 Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g"
1 More tests of this kind
2 Fix those of the above who don't work as intended
2 Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others)
1 Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results
1 Find more useful test suites to run
3 Update INSTALL-cross
2 Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them, look into the Makefile)
4 Fix those who don't work
2 Document all still undocumented store classes
2 The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested
- -Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Oct 2002 +The last official release of the Hurd was 0.2. An +eminent release is not planned. There are a number of +reasons for this. + +One is that the Hurd is not sufficently stable or feature +complete. If an official release of the Hurd were made +now, people would try the Hurd and be disappointed. People +already expect delays; to disappoint them in this way as +well would be unfortunate. Moreover, it lessens the +possibility that they will try the Hurd again in the future. + +Another reason is that, Debian provides a distribution that +closely tracks Hurd development (and often includes many +new features). Little is to be gained by making an official +release. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3