Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

[ori@eigenstate.org]

> This is a good idea. Let me know how do you want to proceed.

I will be busy working on other systems until December,
but when I get back, I'll just make the chages to the
wiki. If it's not editable,  I'll email a patch to the
9fans list.

> 9p.io is a mirror of the former Bell Labs website.
> 
> We're still accepting patches and people can
> update their contrib directory. However, the
> rest is mostly read-only.

It may be worth making it clear *on* 9p.io, then,
that the site is a historical monument, and not a
place to go for a living system. A link to 9legacy
on the front page, flagging it as the place to go
if someone wants to use "Plan 9 from Bell Labs",
would probably be in order.

Personally, I'd prefer to treat the site, and the
system itself, as a living thing, and not as a
historical preservation project. Treating the main
page as "The world stopped when bell labs died"
doesn't indicate a healthy ecosystem to me.

But that's not my call to make, and since I'm not
the one doing the work, I'm not going to argue
about that too much.

> > Is there anywhere that people would be comfortable
> > blessing as a source for building new ISO images,
> > to put behind the download link, with the accepted
> > patches integrated?
> 
> That's mostly what 9legacy is.

It's a collection of patches, but it's unclear from the
site that it's the successor to 9p.io. It would be good
to clarify that this is where the labs distribution of
Plan 9 lives.

You can see that confusion in greemngreek's questions.