Hi,

An issue that repeatedly came up in the past, is Hurd (and related)
patches often not getting applied. (Most recently on gnu-system-dicsuss,
though it's arguably somewhat off-topic for this list...)

It was quite interesting to find a remarkably similar discussion on the
Xorg mailing list recently:

   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-November/030442.html

So this in not really a Hurd-specific issue -- it happens even in such a
major project. Maybe there is something to learn from this thread. The
subthread starting at

   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-November/030465.html

is very enlightening in particular. The problems described there seem
almost identical to what we see here -- which is not surprising,
considering the very similar situation: They too have a large code base,
most of which predates the current active developers, so nobody feels in
charge...

-antrik-