Hello and welcome back, 26.01.2021 23:01:35 Pouya Tafti <pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io>:
I'm coming back to Plan 9 after something of a 15 year break.
Wow, that's a very long time. Indeed, welcome back. I hope you feel well in the new community. I'm sure it changes quite a bit.
It looks like 9p.io has replaced plan9.bell-labs.com. Is it still possible to have a contrib directory (and should I have one / do I deserve one)?
As far as I know there is a mirror or remake of the original contrib at 9p.io, but I'm not sure.
Since you were away for 15 years you might want to check out other Plan 9 forks. The most active one is probably 9front[1], which contains lots of new software as well as hardware support. It also has its own infrastructure (source repo, contrib).
I know there's (or was?) 9atom, but I don't know the details. Also there's lots of new software for 9 in general made by other developers outside the contribs. It's worth mentioning that many new software is in git repos since we now have a native git software[2]. Lots of older software is archived on github[3].
There's also a 9fans discord server that's bridged to ##9fans on freenode, if you want some more synchronous communication.
Don't hesitate to ask questions. Welcome back 🙂 sirjofri [1] http://9front.org [2] https://github.com/oridb/git9 [3] https://github.com/Plan9-Archive ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5b1530f46b5c653d-Md2a9b34fd0f7c2a1b8c9c884 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
