Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

[a@9srv.net]

// In the case of 'The Labs' these days, sharing seems to be
// an anathema.  Acceptance of outside code?  Never.

Look, we've got enough problems without you making things
up which are trivially false:

	: root; pwd
	/n/sources/patch/applied
	: root; for (i in `{ls -rt | tail}) {echo -n $i':	' ; sed 's/@.+//' < $i/email}
	ndb-authdom-hamnavoe:	miller
	bcm-firmware-date:	miller
	5c-nan-cmp:	miller
	5l-incfloat:	miller
	acme-disk-read:	nemo
	fdisk-64-bit-table:	quanstro
	southbridge-8086-1c44:	davide+p9
	ether8169-macv34:	davide+p9
	file-aac-audio:	steve
	ape-cc-objtype:	lunaria21

That is not what "Never" looks like. This is not to say that there
are no issues with patch evaluation or sources' management;
there are. But creating a caricature of the issue is remarkably
unhelpful, at best.

// For the rest of us, share my code by accepting what I wrote -
// verbatim - or just peer at my work on the pedestal I
// constructed over here?  Feh.

Also, obviously false. Both mainline and 9atom have a patch
repository (and Erik's done a particularly good job making it extra
useful by using that for his own 9atom changes), and the 9front
guys have everything in a hg repo on Google Code (say what you
will about hg and/or Google Code, but it pretty much eliminates
the sorts of complaints you're making here). Lots of people make
patches available in contrib. What "pedestal" are you talking
about? Who's fought their code being reused elsewhere?

// What the fuck ever happened to 'community' ...

Ours has always been small, and never helped by people going
out of their way to trash the efforts of others, nor by inventing
issues to complain about.

Anthony