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> On Jan 25, 2024, at 3:45 PM, Michael Misch <michaelmisch1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is incredibly rude and tone-deaf. Your convictions aside, dismissing an > opinion like this is simply stonewalling, and quite frankly obliterated > whatever respect I may have started to develop for you. > >> On Jan 25, 2024, at 08:44, Don Bailey <don.bai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure what all this was, so I didn't read most of it. >> >> If 9front becomes the "mainline" 9, I will stop using 9 altogether. Both as >> a user and a developer. >> >> I trust the sources that come from 9legacy/9pio but I don't have any >> interest in the mess of whatever 9front is supposed to be. >> >> D >> >>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:40 AM hiro via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: >>> I am not a fan of the weird 9front split from the standard repo. I’d prefer >>> the sources to be managed by the foundation and would like to only receive >>> patches through them. >> >> Are you speaking as part of the foundation? As a developer? Or as a User? >> >> Me, as a user, I would also appreciate if the foundation (or the real >> bell-labs unix room heritage, before the foundation existed) would >> "manage" something. for example development and continuous hosting of >> the sources server. This doesn't seem to be the case. >> >> I also would appreciate the making available of patches by the >> foundation. I have no clue where their codebase is moving in the last >> few years as there was no single commit (or even simple patch via >> email) received from them. >> >> I think the reason the 9front repo is continuing to stay split "off" >> is because the bell-labs servers have all been shut down. As a result >> the community has stepped in to donate their own time, money, server >> resources, sweat and blood, etc. to keep a usable plan 9 version and >> community (that is willing to stay patches) alive. >> >> It is extremely unfortunate, but the pressure behind the freely >> contributed code ended up being stronger than the ability to negotiate >> with the empty halls of bell-labs. So as a result lots of community >> members are able to contribute quite effectively. >> >> To me the legend of what must have been the unix room will always stay >> alive, and I will continue to use it as a benchmark to measure my own >> team's success against. But if I cannot be part of the group of cool >> kids that came out of this, I can at least have my own bell-labs, with >> blackjack and hookers. In my head. >> >> Don, I wish you great technical collaborations. At least this is what >> I have came here for, and have tried to take what caused awe in me and >> keep them alive and infect others with all that. Maybe you can submit >> another patch to sources some day soon. >> >> hiro >> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T42f11e0265bcfa18-Md716ed53a2f48228ea3af9da Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
