Hi! Some of you might already have noticed--be it by participating in the #hurd IRC channel or by following HurdExtras's mailing lists--that HurdExtras is gaining momentum again.
This is due to Manuel Menal, who took the challenge of contacting the authors (it's been years...) whose translators and tools he finally committed to the repository. jfs -- a JFS translator mboxfs -- a mailbox file system translator memfs -- a memory based file system translator notice -- request file change notification messages pith -- the Perl interface to the Hurd run -- a simple run translator xmlfs -- a translator for accessing XML documents Manuel also made sure that all those translators (and the others that are already installed in the repository; apart from gopherfs and httpfs) are basically functioning. If _you_ want to contribute to this effort, feel free to contact the hurdextras-hackers mailing list, <URL:http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/hurdextras-hackers>. One thing I noticed (as a participant of the hurdextras-hackers mailing list) is that it seems that several messages didn't get through to the list. Does someone (Alfred, you're listed to be the list administrator for the HurdExtras lists) still do moderation and other maintenance work for these lists? If nobody does and there are no objections from the other participants of HurdExtras's mailing lists, I'd offer to take that over; as the audience knows, I'm also doing moderation and maintenance work for all of the other Hurd mailing lists--to the complete satisfaction of everybody, afaIct. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
