Re: The problems for the rootless subhurd

2009-06-08 Thread Da Zheng
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: In order to track all tasks in subhurd, boot works as a proxy for all RPCs on the task port, [...] However, it seems to be the source of the most serious bug in my modified boot. BUG: After I added the proxy for all RPCs to 'boot', I find that subhurd

My Absence from the Meeting

2009-06-08 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I will not be able to come to the meeting today (Tue, 9 Jun), since I had some classes *unexpectedly* plugged into the schedule at 11 UTC :-( All this drives me mad, but I *must* come to the classes lest I should miss some critical material... I hope I will still appear on the IRC later in

Headlines: more CSS magic wanted (was: Hurd Mission Statement)

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Hijacking this thread again: then, there is this change, 6b7cb4dbb2aa81685f93f1abb9be5251dccf1443, ``debian distro: smaller headings.'', which does things like that: diff --git a/hurd/running/debian.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian.mdwn index bf21740..97d35bd 100644 --- a/hurd/runnin

Copyright and license conditions of mailing list texts and the like (was: Hurd Mission Statement)

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:36:54AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Also I added Olafs explanations in the wiki-weblog section - I hope that's ok > (if not, we can just remove the commits - or refactor them). What you could have done (attention: more Git magic forthcoming) when committing 9

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:36:54AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > I just put the mission stement into the wiki I only did one tweak (consistently use ``GNU Hurd''), but otherwise I'm fine with that -- both Olaf's text itself, and the appearance on the page, so: thanks! Of course w

GNU Mach -> Git

2009-06-08 Thread Ivan Shmakov
BTW, did the transition to Git already happen for GNU Mach development tree, or is it still in CVS?

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-08 Thread Da Zheng
Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: And adding these four letters suffices to tell them the essence without relying on previous knowledge: I don't agree. People not familiar with GNU philosophy will either misread it, or ignore it alltogether. Do you mean the free/gratis/libre part? I t

Re: Monthly reports (was: Hurd Mission Statement)

2009-06-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday, 8. June 2009 10:00:51 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > Which gets me to an important point: We should write once a months or > > so about improvements of the Hurd. A two line news entry suffices to > > show people that the Hurd is active and a project worth contributing > > to. > > Ind

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday, 8. June 2009 09:58:03 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > On Thursday, 4. June 2009 13:45:55 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > > And I just spotted something missing: The word "free" :) > > Well, not exactly hard to s

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > I think it's important to make the mission statement as concise as > possible. Adding anything more is always a tradeoff. Does it really > make the statement clearer and more appealing; or does it only make it > harder to grasp, and distracts

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-08 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > On Thursday, 4. June 2009 13:45:55 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > And I just spotted something missing: The word "free" :) Well, not exactly hard to spot, considering that I explicitely mentioned leaving it out... ;-)

Monthly reports (was: Hurd Mission Statement)

2009-06-08 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Which gets me to an important point: We should write once a months or > so about improvements of the Hurd. A two line news entry suffices to > show people that the Hurd is active and a project worth contributing > to.