On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Wed 21 May 2014 09:49:59 +0200, a écrit : > > Thomas and Samuel: It looks like upstream don't accept patches unless a > > Hurd port maintainer commits to it. What's the use of all this job? > > Well, simply to keep the changes working. That is not surprising at all.
I might not be interested any longer with this kind of requirements. What kind of person do you have to be to be accepted, a GNU/Hurd developer or a GNU/Ada developer having a gnu.org account? Then you or Thomas can commit to this and I'll try to help out. > > (Of course it can at least run on Debian systems if/when accepted.) > > Sure, but will it continue working on the long term? That's the concern > of upstream. I think the majority of work has bee done, Now that patch will change slightly for every missing feature added to Hurd. > In principle it's just a matter of fixing just a few things over the > coming versions. But someone has to do it, otherwise the port will just > die. I wonder ho the kfreebsd people managed to get accepted upstream?
