From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920704091032j74072fbds1cee7a27a3738e02@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:32:31 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670704091011v53bdcb62s321230eb3e385853@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670704090750h19fd808dw171a046d088df5f@mail.gmail.com> <20070409155043.6EC651E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net> <5d375e920704091007y713c21efg27fab0299a596873@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670704091011v53bdcb62s321230eb3e385853@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 42645da8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/9/07, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2007/4/9, Uriel : > > There are 75 people subscribed to the plan9changes[1] mailing list, is > > that not enough people that care? > > Can we not go down this road? I'm offering to take up maintaining > /n/sources/extra/changes for the People Who Do. Arguing about the past > isn't going to help us progress into the future. I am not arguing about the past, but I don't like people rewriting history, if russ didn't want to keep updating the changelog, that is fine, it was nice that he did it for a while, and it is his choice how he spends his time; but claiming that nobody cared is ridiculous. And I am pointing how many people care right now. If you or anyone is going to maintain /n/sources/extra/changes, that will be really fantastic and will make many people happy. Of course, I don't think this is the right way to do things, the easiest and most useful way to do it is for the person who makes the change to writes down what the change is supposed to do, but I guess this is a crazy suggestion in the Plan 9 universe. An hg port would be very useful, and I would not mind if Plan 9 used to maintain its codebase and distribute changes (I don't like replica, you can check 9fans archives for some of the reasons, but in short: it is slow, unreliable, and awkward to use.) Once we find out if the code ron put in 9grid.net (now mirrored in sources) is the latest, I might try to help dho get python and hg running on Plan 9. Dho and me are still waiting to hear back from ron about this after many unanswered private emails. It also would be nice if ron and the other LANL folks could reveal (and release) the state of their gcc port. Best wishes uriel