Re: Unofficial GNU HURD docs

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:14:03 +0530, Amit Chandra <amitforfriends.dns@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I was going through one of the proposals of GSoC13, the one that caught my
> attention and aligns well with my interest is the GNU HURD. I being a
> novice, and having OS in my current semester curricula , i was rather more
> interested in helping maintain the Unofficial GNU Hurd Documentaion.
> 
> After all, whats the use of having an unofficial documentation when
> students do not visit.

Indeed the goal is to integrate the IPC Guide into the "regular" GNU Hurd
documentation; status tracked on
<http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/open_issues/hurdextras/> (need to
clarify copyright assignment situation).

> So, I was thinking in
> http://hurdextras.nongnu.org/ipc_guide/ to contribute to the to dos. Also,
> according to me that would be very good as i would be able to apply the
> concepts that i've just learnt during the semester.

Improving the documentation is very welcome generally!, but unfortunately
not suitable as a Google Summer of Code project, as Google have explained
in the past.

> Also along with that i
> would like to code on some portions of GNU Mach micro kernel, which i leave
> it up to you to decide.
> 
> I have a fairly good amount of coding experience in C and i really like
> procedural languages more than the oop languages(except c++). I'm on a
> debian(i386) platform. Please do reply.

While we can and will of course help with picking a suitable project, it
is really you who has to have an idea about what to work on.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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