From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:33:34 -0500 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <9e4fad988f611729bb064703d636be14@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <91774b6345d79748c720755d28a9f6ef@proxima.alt.za> References: <91774b6345d79748c720755d28a9f6ef@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ddd85d8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I know that David and I are monitoring golang-dev pretty closely. By > the same token, I suspect that Gorka and Nemo don't (I don't know this > for a fact, I'm speculating). What would help immensely would be if > we could advertise each of the willing contributors' own interest in > the development so that we can fill gaps when they arise. > > For example, I have no idea where Anthony Martin is heading with the > notes code, but I am aware that he is probably ahead of the pack in > that direction. Should I spot something in golang-dev that I > understand may affect coding Plan 9's note handling for Go, I would > like to be able to alert him. Not knowing how closely he himself > monitors golang-dev, or how much he would appreciate being nagged, > right now I err on the side of caution. > > It will take time to build a team of contributors that is familiar > with everyone else's role, but that is a good reason to get cracking > now, rather than later. all this is moot unless we can get plan 9 integrated into go's automatic build system. is this doable? i have resources to make this happen if it is. - erik