we've had discussions like this before. I do agree that having a more "original" Plan 9 option like 9legacy is a good idea. in terms of what that actually means doing, a lot of the obvious effort would be to go into turning stuff from 9front into patches for 9legacy. I started to do this to make a patch for dp9ik for 9legacy and I quickly realized how much effort that actually would take

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 11:35 AM Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:

Sometimes gatekeeping is good. It's OK if folks don't agree. 

I think it's healthy to create a strict regimen around "mainline". I am not against 9front doing whatever it wants, I just would prefer if the two did not merge. It's important to keep the 9 ecosystem stable, imo. 

D

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:02 PM thedaemon via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:

Don, you have been gate keeping this whole thread. I see noone agreeing with you either.  We could all be a little kinder to one another, especially since we all have love for Plan 9. 

— thedæmon 🫠

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:31 AM, Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool gaslighting. 

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:25 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:

On Jan 25, 2024, at 8:44 AM, Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what all this was, so I didn't read most of it.
>
> If 9front becomes the "mainline" 9, I will stop using 9 altogether. Both as a user and a developer.
>
> I trust the sources that come from 9legacy/9pio but I don't have any interest in the mess of whatever 9front is supposed to be.

9front is eminently usable. May be you are rejecting it for the wrong reasons?


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