On Jan 05, 2014, at 09:09 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

But the reality is: the labs are no more. No funding, no interest, no anything. Geoff and Jim are due for retirement from this mailing list. (Jim left ages ago, in fact.) Let's let them go in peace.

I'm fairly new here, but it seems that so long as the /n/sources/contrib mechanism exists, we can go on providing patches to the plan9 user community indefinitely... Although, it seems that Geoff and Jim were the ones who authorized creating files in contrib. Is their retirement going to be a showstopper for contrib?

(The archives at http://9fans.net/archive/ don't seem to be working, so I'm not able to check for recent mentions of this on the mailing list.)

Thank you,

Patryk