On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:12:49AM -0500, Matthew Talley wrote:
> What certification would be involved in getting hired to work on Hurd by
> say FSF. I am particularly interested in the transparent clustering part
> of Hurd. As for experince so far. I'm not a linux newbie. I'm not a
> programing newbie. But I've probabl y got a way's to go. I've compiled
> kernels. Installed software from source. done some minor editing to dot
> files. I've also taken Java 1&2 and Fortran 1 plus I have some experence
> with basic thanks to some micro$oft products. I would appreciate some k
> ind of a reply.
I don't speak for the FSF, but I see a couple hurdles you'd have to overcome:
1) The Hurd maintainers would have to be willing to accept you code.
2) You'd have to convince rms that you're worth hiring.
The biggest general priority right now is probably simply getting a 0.3
snapshot out there. Since transparent clustering isn't in the release
path for that, I have trouble seeing that as good criteria for paid work.
If you want to try and understand the scope of the job, I'd suggest
starting by reading some of the code and documenting it. The texinfo
files are out of date, and poorly maintained and contain reference to
historical things (like libmom) so aren't really being considered
anymore. If you'd like more specific documentation projects, let me know
- help is always appreciated.
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