Some coordination among people who are 9fan-gonut, 9fan-godev or 9dev would
be helpful; at least it will reduce unnecessary head-scratching.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:33:34 EST erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One simple thing that can be done is to set up a cron job to
> fetch updates and if anything changed, to rebuild and mail if
> there are any essential differences from previous run.
>
> Requires no additional cooperation from anyone else and can
> work for catching breakage early in any third party software.
>
> Another thing that can be done is to maintain a separate
> "ports" repository, where you keep patches required to build
> but that are not yet integrated in any upstream repo + any
> other bits to a s/w package in a platform specific manner.
> This is how FreeBSD ports work. Everyone shouldn't have to
> track down patches and try merging them individually.
>
>