Re: GSoC 2011

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Sun 06 Feb 2011 12:42:39 +0100, a écrit :
> On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 01:40 +0100, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > 
> > > Based on the successful contributions last year for GNU/Hurd,
> > > especially Arch Hurd, the Debian installer and the DDE driver
> > > framework, will there be a continuation this year? Under the umbrellas
> > > of GNU and or Debian or else?
> > 
> > Yes, we will probably participate under the GNU umbrella again.
> > 
> > (I'm not sure we have any open Debian-related projects.)
> 
> Is the Debian installer completed and in par with the GNU/Linux one, or
> are some parts still needed to be implemented, following up on Jeremies
> work?

A few things still need to be integrated, but that's not work for GSoC.
The few things that are missing is 

- fix dhcp3
- get the few packages still on debian-ports needed for basic install
  into the the archive
- generate all kinds of CD flavors
- use genext2fs or a local /hurd/ext2fs mount to get translators
  recorded in the initrd itself.
- improve initrd handling
- fix library reduction
- enable graphical installer

That doesn't look to me like something we can really propose as GSoC.

Samuel