From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports duplication
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:02:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F45D676E-632D-41BA-A60E-765DE72F4A9E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d33d2aa22b5c83c1e4348c73d008097@yyc.orthanc.ca>
Augment the contrib tools (or a fork or facsimile thereof) to including user-defined rankings and reviews. Forks and duplication sometimes make sense, sometimes they don't -- but the better versions will percolate to the top.
Its a community driven thing, we need the right tools to enable that.
-eric
On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
> I really think this idea that duplication of things in contrib is bad,
> is bad (or just a red herring).
>
> For ports of big applications (python, say), the amount of work involved
> is going to self-limit the number of ports right up front. And the ones
> that do make it will self-select based on the quality of the port.
>
> As for the smaller things, I would prefer to see ten different bits of
> code that achieve the same end vs. just one. Diversity is good, and a
> broader selection of code gives a bigger field to mine for ideas and
> concepts.
>
> --lyndon
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-07 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-07 19:49 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-07 20:02 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2010-03-08 4:26 ` lucio
2010-03-08 12:17 ` Iruata Souza
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