From 1e67a761cbfa94a69cec2f5709d23d7983cd0fc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:55:21 +0100 Subject: Talk about advantages, challenges, how many developers, why so few developers. --- faq/how_many_developers.mdwn | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ faq/why_so_few_developers.mdwn | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 faq/how_many_developers.mdwn create mode 100644 faq/why_so_few_developers.mdwn (limited to 'faq') diff --git a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a553df21 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="How many developers are working on the GNU Hurd?"]] + +Not many. One handful work on it in their free time, and another two +handful do help with [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] and +[[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]] packaging. Also, an additional handful of +former developers are still availble for answering technical questions, +but are not really participating in the current development anymore. + +For reaching out to new developers, we're participating in [[Google's +Summer of Code program|community/gsoc]]. Likewise, any interested party +(*you*!) are very welcome to start [[contributing]]. Mentoring is +possible, too, to help you get started. + +Continue reading some speculation about [[why so few developers]] are working +on the GNU Hurd. diff --git a/faq/why_so_few_developers.mdwn b/faq/why_so_few_developers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a2740abc --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/why_so_few_developers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Why are there so few developers working on the GNU +Hurd?"]] + +[[There aren't working a lot of people on the GNU +Hurd|how_many_developers]]. Why is this? + +We can only speculate. One major problem might be that the +[[architectural benefits|advantages]] are generally perceived as very +abstract, with little practical benefits. We don't have many tools to +present actually making use of the possibilities. + +Another reason is that it's been taking too long. Most people don't +believe it will ever be ready for production use, and thus would consider +involvement a waste of time. This latter point is invalid, of course, as +learning can never be a waste of time. The same holds for the +[[challenges]] raised by the GNU Hurd -- we can only learn and improve +upon working on them. -- cgit v1.2.3