Re: about GNU Hurd

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello,

On 7/25/07, Stephan Peijnik <address@hidden> wrote:
> In my opinion, what the Hurd needs right now, and first of all, is
> a maintainer which applies patches and, once that works, some sort of
> advertising to attract new hackers.

About the last part, maybe some kind of "bounty" could be set up?
As this is hard work, and maybe not immediately rewarding, maybe
some tangible monetary reward on a per-feature or per-milestone
basis could attract new hackers?

I am not familiar with the Hurd and its development status, and do not
feel able to contribute to its development directly, but I am able to offer a
moderate bounty for a stable, GPLv3, more or less drop-in replacement
of the Linux kernel to complete the GNU system, that boots on a decent
amount of commodity hardware.
I was thinking about 5000 CHF (~4100 USD) I am able to donate myself,
and maybe someone else could join me in this.

Wdyt ?

Claudio