Re: alternative compilers

[Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Julius Schmidt <aiju@phicode.de> wrote:
>
> I'm about to make lunch.
> Should I build a community around it or merge it back into the main tree
> to prevent it from being worthless?

9front development is already more community driven than Plan 9 ever was.

We have a cat-v.org community, not a politically correct community,
but still a healthy community of dedicated and intelligent (not me)
people with a working sense of humour.

Of course people that are more interested in feeling offended by
stupid words than on getting working stuff out will stay away from
this community, that is fine, look at how much 'good' they have done
to the Plan 9 "community".

Somehow a bunch of offensive crazy trolls have managed to gather and
integrate more (useful) contributions in a few weeks than Bell Labs
and the PC-gestapo in 9fans have managed in years.

So please, tell us more about how to create and run a community, so we
can make sure to do exactly the opposite.

uriel

P.S.: My only contributions to 9front so far have been my regular
trolling and trying to keep people from doing too-insanely-stupid shit
like fucking around with the 9P protocol, all credit should obviously
go to all the people kicking ass and writing code and documentation,
who have proved me wrong (once again) when I said a fork of Plan 9
would never be successful.