On 9/2/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > The way I inform myself of valuable contributions to plan 9 these days > is by watching 9front commit logs and the #cat-v irc channel. > > If there are any valuable commits in David's repository that we should > apply, please inform us. > I was waiting for the real Hiro to pop out <grin>.
Of course, you're sadly right. On the merit side, 9legacy is frighteningly stable (ask me, I ain't changed a thing in years), so it is eminently ready to absorb 9front's commits, if only the effort did not reduce 9legacy to a stuttering idiot. Small as Plan 9 is, bringing divergent developments together requires that scarce resource called humility on all sides. I can only beat humility into others, no risk of swallowing a dose of it for my own edification. No, I am joking, which is another side of Plan 9 I cherish: few, if anyone at all have their livelihood dependent on Plan 9. I actually can fake humility better than I can fake just about anything else and people do accept it as real. That's good enough. To return to 9legacy versus 9front, I'm totally incompetent at this point, but I'm hoping to familiarise myself with 9front fairly soon, it is too inviting. But my loyalty to the original Plan 9 source is very strong, it's hard to tell how it will pan out. In the meantime, I do have answers I need to pursue, and this is as good an opportunity as any to say thanks to all who have reply and I look forward to hearing even the smallest tidbits that may illuminate the way forward. Unknown to the majority, we are privileged to be acquainted in some detail with a precious thing, we need, as a community, to appreciate whatever it is that we can do to nurture it. Lucio.
