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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon,  2 Dec 2013 10:50:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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On Mon Dec  2 10:01:48 EST 2013, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > is the threat standing?  that is, if the plan 9 port is broken again
> > when 1.5 rolls around in just a few more months, does the plan 9
> > port get booted then, too?
>
> The threat is real: Plan 9 is a burden for the developers and lack of

perhaps we're seperated by a common language.  "standing" in the sense
that for each new release does the same condition hold: if it does not
pass all the tests, it is evicted from the main line.

> The solution is not with "open source" but with rolling up one's
> sleeves and figuring out how to converge as much as possible the

given that most of the time is spent bailing water out of the boat,
and fixing things that weren't previously broken, it seems to me that
like anything it's a two-way street.

anyway, what's the argument for not just forking?

- erik