Hello, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, <olafbuddenha...@gmx.net> wrote: > > For a while I have been thinking about the lack of a roadmap for the > Hurd; but now I realized that we lack something even more fundamental: a > simple mission statement -- i.e. saying *where* we want to go, rather > than how we want to get there. I think many of the problems we have are > directly or indirectly related to that.
An utterly appropriate observation: I hoped that the ``Niches for the Hurd'' discussion would provide us with something definite to tend to, but it doesn't look like it has happened... > As we didn't have such a mission statement so far, the people currently > involved have vastly different ideas about the mission, which of course > makes it a bit hard to come up with a suitable one now. However, I > managed to come up with something that I believe is generic enough so > all contributors can subscribe to it: > > The mission of the Hurd project is: to create a general-purpose > kernel suitable for the GNU operating system, which is viable for > everyday use, and gives users and programs as much control over their > computing environment as possible. Sounds very nice :-) I think it is sufficiently generic to satisfy everyone :-) > What do you think? Is this a good mission statement? If so, it should go > on the Hurd web front page. I think this mission statement suits GNU/Hurd very well and I think it should go on the Hurd web front page so that the newcomers know what their effort is spent on. Regards, scolobb
