[FreeVMS] Status update

[BERTRAND Joel]

Roar Thronæs wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:24:11AM +0200, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
>> 	I think that we have to talk about dark side of this project. You 
>> 	have done some stuff, but there is no documentation to help you. With a 
>> centralized documentation, I think we should make more development. We 
>> need to assign tasks to contributers too. For example, I have not time 
>> enough to try to understand your development, but I have some time to 
>> write some subroutines or libraries. I think we can find some new 
>> contributers if we can propose different tasks. That beeing said, I 
>> think we have to analyze differences between both kernels to merge these 
>> kernels if it is possible.
> 
> I have done some comments in doc/internals, but it is not much.

	Yes, I know. I have seen this directory for a long time. Main problem 
(for me, but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone...) is that it's impossible 
to help you and write some code with this documentation. I think that we 
have to write an exhaustive documentation, and a documentation that 
describe all subroutines and all features (that are or shall be added) 
of FreeVMS kernel.

> I regard books about VMS Internals, Linux kernel internals, CPU docs etc
> as necessary for doing things, and would take a lot of time duplicating it.

	I understand, but even if you use VMS internals books, you try to write 
some VMS-compatible API. VMS internals books and linux documentations 
don't describe FreeVMS kernel. I think that without any _real_ and 
_exhaustive_ documentations, we cannot help you.

	Regards,

	JKB