From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:35:35 -0500 From: a@9srv.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <33e2329fe3abd2d9d6341fe723cf76e2@brasstown.quanstro.net> <25BC4401-C0DC-404D-8CF2-91AF643D6715@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae944eb0-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 // 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