Re: [9front] "Touching the Artwork" strikes again

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

i think there is a lot of crosstalk and confusion here, and i for one am not even clear what anyone in this thread actually wants. probably just writing a complete spec for what you want and then posting it on the mailing list and then waiting for everyone to never ever mention it again would be more coherent than this current who's on first routine (see also: the long languishing proposal for a new bug tracker). another alternative would be implementing the thing you want and then posting diffs on the mailing list and waiting for it to get shot down. what doesn't help is oblique references to a dude who ran windows on his thinkpad for the last year of his life and isn't here to defend himself.

there is room for throwing stones at a lot of stuff in plan 9, even before 9front came along. what's great about the past few years is so much experimentation and new stuff to argue about. the very best part is that, unlike the status quo when uriel was alive, all these folks are actually sharing code. we've come a long way.

sl