one way it will help the bonzai tree grow is in that 9front can soon escape the old python, that constantly weighs on us just bec. we want to run hg sometimes.
python keeps on reinventing itself (python3 now has the crappiest unicode implementation imaginable), and hg keeps on reinventing itself alongside. so in the long run, unless we are fine to run a very very outdated version of python and hg, we really need a way out of these dependencies. git9 now seems to be the best way out that would be compatible and can keep the commit history alive. thanks ori. On 11/27/20, Lucio De Re <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not clear what your preference is, Ori. Maybe you can clarify how > you would like contributors to participate in the self-hosted project. > > I personally really appreciate, in particular the convergence of Plan > 9 streams that your efforts are encouraging. > > I just don't yet see how this should be harnessed, but I do wish the > discussion could at least start, lay down some useful objectives that > can be accepted by all interested parties. In some kind of unity lies > Plan 9's strength. > > In a sense, Plan 9 is immunisation against the fragmenting forces of > the market place, but I think it needs more than a shot, it needs > continuous application. R.A. Heinlein (if I remember right) likened it > to growing a bonsai tree over multiple human generations. > > Let me leave it at that, but add that I personally think that revision > control can be done far more productively than Git, but the effort > needed would be significant. In Ori's own git9 are but the seeds for > that. And Github has shown what Git can facilitate, imagine what the > next generation could mean for development. > > Lucio. > > PS: in case it got swamped, Ori, all I really started with was to say > "thank you". I tend to slip into self-indulgence... > > On 11/26/20, o...@eigenstate.org <o...@eigenstate.org> wrote: >> I'll keep mirroring to github, because people keep promising >> that it'll get me contributors -- and because it doesn't >> hurt to keep testing against it. Also, because breaking >> links annoys people. >> >> But github is no longer the upstream: Git9 is running on >> git/serve, hosted on plan 9 -- it's been towed within the >> environment. >> >> The new upstream is now: >> >> gits://orib.dev/git9 >> >> And there's a web listing of repositories here: >> >> https://orib.dev/git/repos.html >> >> I wrote up how it works here: >> >> https://orib.dev/githosting.html >> >> Thanks to everyone for all the testing, patches, >> and reports. > > > -- > Lucio De Re > 2 Piet Retief St > Kestell (Eastern Free State) > 9860 South Africa > > Ph.: +27 71 471 3694 > Cell: +27 83 251 5824 ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te1830283b1d3653f-M56a6e3c5e4b6b5c0d100e144 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
