"we never know when plan9.bell-labs.com will be back."

Yes, yes we do. Not.

On 5 January 2018 at 16:35, David du Colombier <[email protected]> wrote:

> > How about contrib? It would be nice to have something to fall back on
> > when the plug is finally pulled.
>
> We could use the /n/sources/contrib directory from 9p.io as the future
> main contrib repository, but we never know when plan9.bell-labs.com
> will be back.
>
> At some point in the past, plan9.bell-labs.com was down for many weeks,
> so some people started to submit patches to 9p.io, but it became an issue
> once plan9.bell-labs.com was back because we had to synchronize
> the repositories.
>
> That's why I would consider 9p.io to be a read-only mirror of
> plan9.bell-labs.com for now.
>
> --
> David du Colombier
>
>

Reply via email to