Roadmap etc. (was: GSoC application deadline passed)

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:58:33PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> El Friday, 14 de March de 2008 15:08:31 Carl Fredrik Hammar escribió:

> > Most of the recent changes has been on the L4 branch, which was
> > originally an attempt to port Hurd to the L4 micro kernel.  That
> > didn't work out for various reasons, so currently they are
> > experimenting with their own kernel until something better comes
> > along.  (Disclaimer: I'm not a 100% sure on any of this.)
> 
> Does that already run? Would it be possible to turn it into a livecd
> or qemu image? 

It does run, but does nothing that would be interesting to a user.

Currently it's only a proof-of-concept implementation of Neal's research
work; it's not interesting for anything else than this research (yet).

> If you find a list, that list should go into the wiki, along with a
> roadmap on which things can be marked "done". 
> 
> That means, the Hurd needs something like the Shedules in KDE: ->
> http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Schedules
> 
> Each new release just needs a todo list with bugs and features. 

I totally agree that some kind of roadmap would be useful in general.

(Problem is that everyone has different priorities. Any roadmap would
reflect a particular person's goals; I doubt we could come up with one
generally agreed on...)

However, I think that conditioning releases on any particular milestones
is a bad idea in general. Whenever the current state has visible
improvements over the last release (and doesn't introduce too many new
problems), it's worth a new release. That doesn't really need any
planning in advance...

-antrik-