From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2de90b6646f6a3057c94f6537293ffce@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:46:35 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women Topicbox-Message-UUID: 08a56da6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > but if you're looking for somebody to say "Sounds > great, where do you want me to start?" you'll probably be waiting a > long time, I think it's more "what a great idea, I've thought about the same and here is what I have done". Fact is, it's all largely there in /n/sources/contrib(*), 9vx and p9p, with a peppering of linuxemu, but it could do with some focussed discussion and documentation. Documentation, particularly, is not one of Plan 9's strongest features. For example, Nemo's two major commentaries could do with revision(**). And perhaps part of the Plan 9 installation should include easy access to salient items on the wiki. I'm assuming, based on past discussion, that many frustrated 9fans-to-be just have not had a chance to investigate the available information. ++L (*) I plea for a couple of major changes to contrib myself. And I'm willing to code them, but I need some direction pointers: (a) can we move fgb's "contrib" back-end to a different directory so as to reduce the volume of the portion of contrib that is not served by it? and (b) can we either adopt "contrib" for the whole of the contrib tree or provide some other technique possibly based on replica to make it possible for someone like me at the tip of a low-speed Internet link to maintain a copy of it? (**) Nemo, could you publish source versions of your commentaries with copyright notices to protect whatever I.P. you may need to protect and let others try to improve on them? Specially the 3ed kernel sources commentary? CVS or equivalent would be good, or even "patch", if somebody (I'll do it, if there is enough patience) is prepared to deal with it.