Re: Quarter of the Hurd 2011-q4

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 11:21:55 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:44:18 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
wrote:
> > → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next/
>
> Thanks!  I intend to publish this later today.

Great!

> > And there are now social network sites for GNU Hurd on
> > [Google+](https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#11494248838571189
> > 1227/posts) and the AGPL licensed
> > [identi.ca](http://identi.ca/group/hurd), to make it easier to stay in
> > touch.
> identi.ca is not new.

Did we talk about it before? If not, I’d put it in anyway or just remove that
note completely (including G+, which is unfree).

I just removed the G+ part. We don’t need to push people to G+, but rather to
get people who find us on G+ to come here.

> > As a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with
the Hurd:
> >     <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd
> >     <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing
> >     <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash
> >     <youpi> with a reproductible scenario
> >     <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a
> >
> >       check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà,
> >       ext2fs was working again
> >
> >     <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot
> >
> >     <youpi> just ext2fs restart :)
>
> This is for 2012-q1; I will leave it in moth_next when I move the current
> one to news/2011-q4.

OK.

> Well, in fact, let's admit that it's no longer a MotH but a QotH; I
> updated the instructions.

Please leave the file as moth_next.mdwn despite that: Never break existing
links if you are not forced to, not even in a wiki.

Best wishes and thanks for the changes (nice mention of FOSS factory!),
Arne

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