Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

[Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com>]

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Sounds like you're happy keeping 9front separate from "mainline", then.
Works for me :-)



On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> wrote:

> On 1/25/24 09:35, Don Bailey wrote:
> > Direction comes from people writing code... but you write code for
> 9front, yes? What does that have to do with mainline Plan 9? And what does
> that have to do with the direction set forth by the people that actually
> designed it?
> 
> There is no "path for patches" in 9legacy, if I wanted to write code for
> "mainline Plan 9" who do
> I send to code to? Who is going to help review and bug test my code. You
> mentioned earlier that
> you had ported Plan 9 to other systems, is that code available anywhere,
> was that upstreamed into
> "mainline Plan 9". 9front happened, as Ori stated, because there was no
> path forward with "mainline
> Plan 9".
> 
> When I looked in to Plan 9 some 5ish years ago and looking at both camps
> of folks it was clear to me
> that one group was going to look at my patches, work on my hardware, and
> had an active community.
> 
> If y'all wanted to set up a pipeline for patches, encourage folks to send
> in their patches and make
> some repo for folks to work on then yeah sure. But right now there really
> isn't a comparison between
> what "mainline plan 9" is and 9front, one is a museum and the other is a
> living distribution. There is
> of course Miller's branch, which I respect as being active and actually
> usable, but I have a feeling you
> don't consider that "mainline plan 9" either.
> 
> Look man, be the change you want to see in the world, setup the repo,
> review patches, merge new code, et
> all. Getting mad at us for writing the code and keeping stuff working is a
> bit silly, especially if your
> only reason is that we aren't the "blessed few". Those folks as far as I
> can tell are not interested in
> this anymore, we're on our own here. There are clearly some folks
> interested here in continuing "mainline
> plan 9" why not work together and get something that is easier for folks
> to use? 9front will continue to
> be over here with a ten year plus head start.
> 
> - moody
> 

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