Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>]

Hello and welcome back,

26.01.2021 23:01:35 Pouya Tafti <pouya+lists.9fans@nohup.io>:
> I'm coming back to Plan 9 after something of a 15 year break.

Wow, that's a very long time. Indeed, welcome back. I hope you feel well 
in the new community. I'm sure it changes quite a bit.

> It looks
> like 9p.io has replaced plan9.bell-labs.com.  Is it still possible to
> have a contrib directory (and should I have one / do I deserve one)?

As far as I know there is a mirror or remake of the original contrib at 
9p.io, but I'm not sure.

Since you were away for 15 years you might want to check out other Plan 9 
forks. The most active one is probably 9front[1], which contains lots of 
new software as well as hardware support. It also has its own 
infrastructure (source repo, contrib).

I know there's (or was?) 9atom, but I don't know the details. Also 
there's lots of new software for 9 in general made by other developers 
outside the contribs. It's worth mentioning that many new software is in 
git repos since we now have a native git software[2]. Lots of older 
software is archived on github[3].

There's also a 9fans discord server that's bridged to ##9fans on 
freenode, if you want some more synchronous communication.

Don't hesitate to ask questions. Welcome back 🙂

sirjofri

[1] http://9front.org
[2] https://github.com/oridb/git9
[3] https://github.com/Plan9-Archive

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