Re: A Hurd release

[Bas Wijnen]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I think it might also be nice to create a "punch list" of known
>    bugs or missing features that people think are essential for a 1.0
>    release.
>
> And/Or for the next release.  Features that would take time to
> implement (libchannel?) could wait a bit, but bug fixes should be put
> into the next release.

I very much like the way the gimp does this: For every bug and feature 
request, there is a field "target milestone", which is when they expect 
to fix/implement it.

Personally, I have some things which should be in 1.0, from a user 
perspective.  I don't actually know if they already work, as I haven't 
used a Hurd system for some time, so delete items which are already 
done.  ;-)

- mozilla and/or mozilla firefox should run.
- gnome and/or kde should run.
- probably OpenOffice.org as well.
- decent network support (including dhcp).

Feature requests (possibly for after 1.0):

- user space firewall support.  (using normal programs, or even scripts, 
to decide what to do with network packets.)

Thanks,
Bas

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