There are "they"s coming up repeatedly in this discussion.

I think that it's important to remember that Debian Hurd is not some massive project with thousands of anonymous people behind it. Like Tribblix and Peter Tribble, Debian Hurd's driving force is someone whom you can name: Samuel Thibault.

And although there are a few others that appear on the debian-hurd mailing list from time to time, it is amply clear that this is one of those (many) projects with a core group of very few dedicated people, with very limited resources for development and testing. There is no many hands making light work, here.

This isn't Debian as you may know it for other kernels. (-:

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2025/07/maillist.html

So, in some ways, if microkernels interest you, Debian Hurd is a place to contribute where the ground has yet to be completely trodden.