Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 12:18:55 +0100, a ecrit:
> The question is rather whether we have anybody ready to be paid for
> working on GNU/Hurd. Somebody could pop out and say "I'll work for
> that", but he'd need a lot of mentoring before being able to contribute,
> and that alone could possibly simply just consume the money.

One thing that could be accessible, however, would be to direct money
to investigating bugs. That doesn't necessarily require a lot of
Hurd-specific knowledge: just the work on diving into the bugs seen in
applications, and finding out what is going wrong exactly at the level
of the libc (e.g. feature foo is not supported on TCP/IP sockets) can
help a lot into fixing them.

Samuel