RE: Hurd web

[Jim Franklin]

Jeff,
Nice to hear from you. I've been working at the job 7 days a week since mid
May. This is pretty close to what I projected to you at the beginning of
April so I'm not really surprised it happened. Today and tomorrow I have
pretty much free, and on Monday it's back to 7 days a week for probably
another month. Oh the joys of being a start-up engineer.
I'll bring you up to speed. I've got the cover page redone. Also the more
about hurd general info page. An old copy (the left column is changed some
and probably will continue to change till the end of the project as sections
are added and deleted) and can be viewed at:

http://members-http-1.rwc1.sfba.home.net/cykick/software/hurd/

I've given the copyright rights to 'the hurd development and information
links' doc to the FSF and have renamed it 'The GNU Hurd WWW Sitemap'.
Richard Stallman should be sending me the finalized documentation within a
week or so. Work on the development section has been put on the side since I
decided it will be a spin off and expansion of part of the 'The GNU Hurd WWW
Sitemap'. I have just about completed reviewing the hurd archives and should
start the final rewriting of the 'Sitemap' this evening.
If you could handle the ports page that would be great! Once again it will
be a hook into other web sites except for Zeno's l4 port page which will be
hosed at hurd.gnu.org . the reason for using hooks into other web pages
rather than hosting them at gnu.org is in the cover page listed above. Ian
is working with paulv (chief GNU webmaster) to hook the source code for the
hurd and GNUMach into the web site using lxr and to be updated weekly by
script. Ognyan's paper will be the section 'About Microkernels'. I will be
using Phil's section from the debian web pages which he wrote and hook it
into the boilerplate for the CDs and minimal floppies section. The minimal
floppies section may still have to be written. There is probably more but
not off the top of my head.

The general philosophy I have been using when building these pages.

)We are trying to attract new developers to learn to hack on the hurd code.
THIS IS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS WEB SITE.
)Do not if at all possible refer to Linux! We are not here to compare OS
strategies. Any reference to linux is a negative connotation on the hurd.
Trust me on this one. As far as we are concerned linux is old tech and not
worth getting in a pissing match over ;)
)we are attracting probably young developers (early twenties?) who are
probably trying to make a name for themselves hacking kernel so keep the
language modern. Also the folks who have been trying to contribute to the
linux kernel and have been aced out by the 'good old boy' system in place
for the linux kernel. (I got this info from some old archived hurd
messages).

I'll think of more to pass on later this afternoon.

Thx
Jim Franklin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bailey [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:08 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Hurd web


Jim,

Tommorow is my last day at work, and I have about 4 weeks of hanging
out at home before I move.  Mostly, I'm hoping to work on our current
glibc problems, but I would like to also do more on the web pages.  I
don't even have current notes for where it's hosted, etc.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey