Re: [9fans] 9fans content

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

perhaps we need a 9fans-lists to discuss lists, tho 9fans
seems to cope well.  or give everyone there own list.
oh, that's called filtering.

brucee

On 8/11/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/10/07, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
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> > I'm one of the "guilty" parties regarding plan9-tech.  GSOC requires
> > public communications, but I'm entirely unhappy passing "did you
> > check bit 11 of the VPN register" level of crap to 9fans - it's
> > clearly not where it belongs (I believe it belongs in private email,
> > but that's another matter).  Plan9-tech was a (possibly ill-named)
> > place to drop those messages.
>
> So it wasn't created for the reasons Uriel cited.  I'm not terribly
> surprised that the spin on it was not 100% truthful.
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> I have absolutely no objections to people ever breaking into smaller
> subgroups to work on stuff people think is only tangentially interesting to
> the rest of a group.
>
> v9fs is a successful subgroup of folks.  I just learned of the google code
> project hosting for Inferno on the DS... I wouldn't think to cram all of
> that discussion on 9fans.
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> Seems that it's not inappropriate to sort of poke one's head in here from
> time to time and say "hey look what we're working on and tell us if you
> think it's crap" once in a while though :-).  We are all, after all, 9fans
> :-)
> > Frankly, my post-mortem on gsoc won't be very nice.  I should never
> > have accepted to work with a student 9 timezones away, even if the
> > project is really interesting.  And I certainly could have poured
> > arbitrary amounts of time into it, but I'm really unsure where the
> > line is between the student's project and my own (essentially
> > recreational) coding.
>
> I'm sorry to hear it's not well structured.
> > Paul
> >
> > On 10-Aug-07, at 12:28 PM, Uriel wrote:
> >
> > > The plan9-tech list was created (not by me) after various gsoc
> > > students *and* mentors plain refused to use 9fans, and really, who can
> > > blame them when even jmk refuses to use 9fans anymore.
> > >
> > > Anyway, keep jumping to assumptions, bashing people who tries to help,
> > > and doing what you have doing so far, it seems to have worked really
> > > well.
> > >
> > > uriel
> > >
> > > P.S.: Oh, I know, you would rather have everyone use private email,
> > > that has worked so wonderfully so far.
> > >
> > > On 8/10/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 8/10/07, Steve Simon < steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> good one uriel, good one.
> > >>
> > >> so, set me straight on this: somone is leading the tribe of True
> > >> 3lite
> > >> Hackers across the desert, gonna part the waters etc., take 'em to
> > >> the
> > >> promised land, and so on.
> > >>
> > >> So, uh, who are these tech contributors who are going? I can only
> > >> gaze
> > >> in awe. And, once they get there, I assume they'll take a blanket off
> > >> the blanket tree and take a nap (ref. to CM Kornbluth is entirely
> > >> intentional; I'll let you find story and title).
> > >>
> > >> ron
> > >> p.s. met the coraid guys at linux world yesterday. Very, very fine
> > >> stuff. I love the fact that they are 'the linux storage company'.
> > >>
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