Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>]

Hey Vic,

I followed the other thread and read through your initial mail. Here's my thoughts.

I don't think the development of another mainline release or the formation of a core team really makes sense. A core team is built around a solid vision and the ability (and want) to follow that.

My suggestion is, you just start building your own distribution based on your vision and people can join. I just doubt that this will end up being 5e, especially because there's nobody who's willing to give it a 5e stamp.

That said, we have "official" plan 9 releases: 4th is "officially" 4th, 9front is "officially" 9front, and 9legacy is "officially" 9legacy. It's ok to let history be and start building new stuff based on what happened in the past 15 years instead of building on a state 15 years ago and hoping for a magical stamp to give you an "official" branding.

People don't care if they're using an "official" system. People use linux, which is not unix. People use 9front, which is not plan 9. Many good things started as forks, and that's ok.

Forming a core team is like forcing people into a vision without a base. Maybe they'll start, but there's no guarantee. It's more likely they'll just leave and that was it.

If you take a look at FreeBSD, they started more or less as something like 9legacy, and they continued to be 9legacy. They never were "official" 386BSD, they even looked for another name, which ended up being "FreeBSD".

I'll write another mail as response to your new mail.

sirjofri

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