Re: Hurd Involvement

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi Erick!

Posting my answers to your questions to the public <bug-hurd@gnu.org>
mailing list,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/mailing_lists/bug-hurd.html>, so that
others can join the discussions and/or learn from the answers given.

On Wed, 07 May 2014 23:49:19 -0500, Erick Mendoza <kolt.penny@gmail.com> wrote:
> [requirements for involvement]

There are no formal requirements other than an adequate copyright/licensing
status of your changes.

> [detailed knowledge needed to get involved]

That totally depends on what you'd like to do.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html>,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation.html>.

> [programming language]

Mostly C.

> [testing]

Other than some rare exceptions, all contributions have to be tested.
You can, for example, use a virtual machine for running a Hurd system,
such as: QEMU/KVM,
<http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/running/qemu/>, or VirtualBox,
<http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/running/virtualbox/>.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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