I think your reply touches most of the sore spots I am familiar with. There's no doubt that 9legacy is missing out badly from the absence of cinap's contributions to 9front and I'm the first to believe that a one and true Plan 9 cannot afford to omit such pertinent enhancements, just to list one, pretty massive example.
In a way, David IS the Plan 9 curator, but like all volunteers, his focus has to be restricted to his interest scope, at the expense of features that may spell life and death (in a metaphoric sense) for the Plan 9 effort. If one considers how much has been spent on Plan 9 so far and how much it has served, irrespective of the emotional and aesthetic appeal that we as 9fans presumably feel for it, it would be a shame to let slip, as no doubt has happened already in the past, opportunities to give Plan 9 a better grip in its context to ensure its survival against more popular brands. I guess it's a Darwinian issue: is there a flavour of Plan 9 capable of earning sufficient traction where it matters (minds, more likely than physical hosts) to ensure that its many still under-utilised unique features are not lost, particularly to our very own community? Can that flavour of Plan 9 be created, if necessary, from the available "corpus" and what would the cost a committed community like this one would need to bear to make that possible? Such an effort would be the curatorship I have in mind, if you can call it that. Lucio. On 9/2/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > what form of curation are you imagining? we have a generic place for > plan9-related news at http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/, but perhaps we > haven't looked out far enough around 9front? > > there used to also be a planet/rss aggregation, but nobody alive knows > how to get the used software behind this to run on plan9 again. and > most people's blogs in that list shifted from plan9-related to > go-related activities, so i'm not sure it's even worth updating any > more. > > -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824 FAX: +27 58 653 1435
