Hello! On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:41:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had just been a week at IIIT, Hyderabad - http://iiit.ac.in. The > faculty there has agreed to pool in research students and scholars there > to assist in the development of Hurd.
That's very interesting to hear. :-) But first we should clarify a few issues. Are you aware that the current Hurd's implementation (and design) are currently not as actively pushed forward as they were is in the past? A number of people instead began to reconsider issues in the Hurd's design (see the l4-hurd mailing list's archives for example, <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd>). This includes both the actual Hurd's design, as well as the underlying micro kernel. A very early, incomplete draft of this ``new Hurd'''s design is available at <http://www.marcus-brinkmann.org/hurd-ng.pdf> and the beginning of documenting some issues at <http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/NextHurd>. Unfortunately its main pioneers, Marcus Brinkmann and Neal Walfield (and a number of other people, mostly on the l4-hurd mailing list), can't -- at the moment -- dedicate as much time to this project as it would need. So, there is currently no possibility to directly contribute to this effort, as far as I can see. If you instead think it is feasible to invest time into the current Hurd on Mach implementation, there are tons of loose ends where work would be possible. > It has been over 20 years of development. I have undertaken to do a > qualitative study of the development during this period. > Q2) Where can I find the valid archives ? You mean like mailing list archives? They're accessible from <http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=hurd> and <http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/>. Very old stuff, the archives of the hurd-folks mailing list which is documenting parts of the Hurd's genesis, are available at <http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/hurd/hurd-talk.tar.gz>. There is no written history, as far as I know. Only bits here and there. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
