*** Off Topic *** I had a brief chat with "patch" and it strikes me now that the delay in accepting complex patches might be alleviated if such patches could be reviewed by 9fans, that is to say, publicly, by request. Say, for example, that we are asked to comment on Axel's patch and we return a verdict, as part of the "patch" process. No need to publish the request, those interested can look on sources and post the result there.
That was precisely the purpose of my original patch notification system, which russ didn't like and forced me to shut down. I proposed doing a similar thing in the plan9-changes list for whoever wanted to participate, but russ didn't like that either. If you like I can open up plan9-changes (I'm not sure, but I suspect it doesn't track new patches anymore, but that could be easily changed), or we could create a new plan9-patches where only new patches are posted (patches would get posted to plan9-changes when they are accepted or rejected.) In any case, without the collaboration of whoever sits at the other end of patch(1), the whole exercise is pointless. uriel
