Re: A Hurd release

[Barry deFreese]

Roland McGrath wrote:

> > Roland, what do you think?
> >    
>
> Whatever Marcus likes is fine with me, basically.  I don't know what
> benefit people find from a GNU tarball release, since everyone actually
> interested in the Hurd is directed either to Debian packages (for using) or
> to the CVS sources (for hacking).  If the motivation is just for PR, I
> don't have any opinion about that one way or the other.  Whatever folks want.
> If a release is useful, I don't think there is any reason to wait for any
> particular fixes or features beforehand.  Obviously the status quo is years
> better than 0.2 (literally) already.  I don't see any harm in doing 0.3
> tomorrow and 0.4 next week if worthwhile fixes/features go in then.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
>  
Well as much as it pains me I have to agree with Roland to a degree.  
The more I think about it, the less I think we "need" a new release.  We 
we need is to spread the word.  A good deal of the information available 
is outdated, many of the websites are not up to date, there is very 
little information about the L4 port, etc.  I think a lot of people get 
the impression that nothing is happening.  Hell if you look at savannah 
(which I haven't recently so maybe I'm off base here), you would think 
nothing has happened in years.  It seems like there has been a surge in 
activity recently (the console, DHCP, L4 picking up a little, hell I'm 
even working on mozilla) and we need to capitalize on that.  A long 
while back I was gonna start writing kerneltrap articles but there just 
wasn't enough happening to warrant it.  Now, maybe we need it, or /. or 
whatever the outlet needs to be.  I may start some again but with my 
lack of technical expertise, I'm not sure I am the person for the job.

Anyway, just my 2 cents as usual..

Take care and keep up the good work.

--
Barry deFreese
Debian 3.0r1 "Woody"
GNU/Hurd
Registered Linux "Newbie" #302256 - Hurd H4XX0r wannabe

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