"we never know when plan9.bell-labs.com will be back."

Yes, yes we do. Not.

On 5 January 2018 at 16:35, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about contrib? It would be nice to have something to fall back on
> when the plug is finally pulled.

We could use the /n/sources/contrib directory from 9p.io as the future
main contrib repository, but we never know when plan9.bell-labs.com
will be back.

At some point in the past, plan9.bell-labs.com was down for many weeks,
so some people started to submit patches to 9p.io, but it became an issue
once plan9.bell-labs.com was back because we had to synchronize
the repositories.

That's why I would consider 9p.io to be a read-only mirror of
plan9.bell-labs.com for now.

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David du Colombier