Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository

[dante <subscriptions@posteo.eu>]

Please, be so kind and stop this "Bazaar" thread.

The proposal was to use some maybe more scalable tools while
maintaining the current responsibilities.
This could allow for more contributions to be done with the same burden
for the maintainers.

An example for what it's worth could be OpenBSD.
They have AFAIK a central package system with a couple of maintainers
and nightly builds and many-many contributors.

Not Linux. Linux is nowadays so complex that no one can understand the
whole kernel.
Linux is IMHO way too lax about new, orthogonal interfaces,
functionality overlap and rewriting in a different flavour.

Kind Regards,
Dante


On 19.07.2014 14:03, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:49:10PM +0200, pmarin wrote:
>>
>> Plan9 in general doesn't follow the Bazaar model ( the current usual
>> way of doing things ).
>>
> The Bazaar model is the one for not doing or undoing.
>
> Small is beautiful. The attraction for Plan9 is its consistency and
> size.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, the current organization is not a drawback
> from contributing more---time is. Another organization will not
> offer, for me, more opportunity to contribute. When I have something
> to contribute (and for now, this is only user level kerTeX), nothing
> impeds me from doing.
>
> This is for user level.
>
> For kernel, the problems may be more involved. But clearly, the number
> of persons able to contribute is far more limited. And consistency
> shall
> be the primary aim. So an organization good for a "small team" is an
> organization good for kernel level.
>
> My 1 cent,
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