Re: A Hurd release

[Ognyan Kulev]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Anyway, I hope to start a discussion with this email.  It would be
> nice if the Hurd maintainers would make it clear what needs to be done
> before the Hurd 0.3 can be released or if they just release it.

Yes, I think the most important thing now is to clearly set what are the 
requirements for 0.3.  http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus 
should be considered.

My personal opinion is that 0.3 should include the ext2fs patch and I'm even 
optimist that all issues about the patch can be cleared till FOSDEM.

I'm under impression that DHCP is important too.

Apart from these features, a broader testing of the Hurd is needed -- some ideas 
can be found in http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus .

Buggy software gives bad impression and I think we should at least mark the bad 
things.  For example, we can have message in the beginning of INSTALL-cross that 
it's largely outdated, and rpctrace can always print message to stderr that it's 
unusable for serious work (e.g. debian packaging).  These "marks" are easy when 
we have complete list of what doesn't work right.

Regards,
ogi