From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1518259893.2759231.1266170088.4F324D82@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1518259893.2759231.1266170088.4F324D82@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:59:39 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] There is no fork Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd427bec-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i forgot to mention: if you are confused why valuable contributions to another fork are not included in 9front, and you don't know why, please come and talk to us about it. either we didn't see it or there's a architectural decisions or goals that don't align with 9front. in general if you can advance plan9 9front would love to take part. multiple people track very closely what is happening elsewhere, though there's definitely some randomness involved, and a selection process to prevent bad decisions from piling up. we have a wish to stay compatible as much as possible. even questionable changes in mainline were integrated when there was no other way. we have a mailing list, so it doesn't matter whether you irc or not.