Hurd development (was: Release process & rolling new releases)

[Justus Winter]

Hello :)

Quoting Thomas Schwinge (2014-11-22 18:00:06)
> Justus, believe me, I do understand your frustration.  Thank you very
> much for being insistent, instead of just going away.

It has been two months, time to escalate the issue again :)

> > The glibc change is trivial.  And even if the change is not applied to
> > the glibc, it only breaks the system shutdown.  Furthermore, I believe
> > that we, the Hurd developers, should be entitled to make such a change
> > without the explicit consent of the glibc developers.  If this is not
> > the case, then I do not believe that developing the Hurd is very
> > practical, or even possible, given that half of the Hurd system is
> > implemented in the glibc.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I have already started discussing some procedural changes, and will
> follow up once I'm back home (currently travelling), in early December.

I have reimplemented the startup server.  The new server does not
support the startup protocol over its message port.  This change has
not made it into the glibc.  The shutdown isn't working.

Our development process is severely broken.  Or noone gives a shit
anymore.  Or both.  I really cannot tell.

Justus