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Re: How to get more developers (was: Mailing List traffic and...)



On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 05:31:25AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote:
> Hi Okuji,
> 
> >   That's interesting, but what I'm more interested in is the reason
> > why the number of developers doesn't increase, even though so many
> > people subscribe to the list. This is not ironical but a purely
> > academic interest for me.
[...]
> And yes, the docs... Although things start improving now, we still need
> a lot more of tutorial-like materials. "Hello worlds" for misc. parts of
> the system may be one way to introduce newbies to the internals of Mach
> and the Hurd(-libraries). I'm thinking here especially of small dummy
> translators, dummy filesystems and other simple user-level programs.

I might write hello-worlds for cthreads.
This is easy, little library, but there is very little documentation for it.



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