Re: about GNU Hurd

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I agree in that the Hurd project has some organizational
   issues. But, just my oppinion, those issues maily comes from a lack
   of capable hackers, and from a lack of _actual_ work. There are
   many people reading the Hurd User Guide, the Hurd Hacking Guide,
   the OSF Mach books, etc. But, how many people you know that is able
   to actually hack gnumach? From these mach-capable hackers, how many
   of them are _actually_ hacking gnumach?

One, Samuel.

   Still, there are organizational problems. I think the project need
   a refresh. I would appoint Thomas Schwinge as the unique maintainer
   for both the Hurd and gnumach. He seems to be the most active
   hacker doing real work. He seems to enjoy working in the actual
   Hurd kernel (not in HurdNG or something like that). He could make a
   new website updated with clear directions and development
   procedures in http://hurd.gnu.org. etc.

The most active hacker for a long time has been Samuel, Schwinge has
done very little codewise in total.