Re: contribution

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello William!

Thanks for your interest in the GNU Hurd project!

If you are striving to contribute to the effort, please spend some time
thinking about the following items:

  * What areas are you interested in contributing to?

    Think a moment about this list: porting / extending existing software
    to run on Hurd systems; work on existing or write new Hurd servers or
    libraries; work on the standard C library; make Hurd stuff usuable
    from other programming languages than C; work on the current Mach
    micro kernel; do research and development of a next-generation micro
    kernel; help with development of new Hurd libraries and servers on
    top of that.  Those projects are all within the ``Hurd'' topic, but
    are vastly different projects.

  * How is your expertise about system and kernel programming?

    Sadly we don't have the ressources to teach you from ground-up.  We
    will -- of course! -- answer to specific questions, but on
    substantial parts of your project you'll have to work on your own.
    (Unless there is someone who already works in the same area, of
    course.)

  * Have you previously been working on Free Software projects?

    Are you used to the working-style Free Software projects bring with
    them?


> I'm new to the free software scene and I'm writing this on Debian
> GNU/Linux

Congratulations!

> but I encounter a few integration difficulties (which are
> probably not in the scope of this team).

Yes, unfortunately we don't have the resources (man-power) to help you
here.


> I hope there's a guide of the
> tools, methods and librairies to use in my participation and if not, I'd
> like to have a few pointers.

He provide a number of pointer about stuff to read on the project's web
pages, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/docs.html>.  Also, there's a
wiki at <http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/>.
<http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/contributing/> may be worth looking
at.


Regards,
 Thomas

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