19 Jun
2024
19 Jun
'24
8:33 a.m.
On 19 Jun 2024, at 08:44, Greg A. Woods
<woods(a)robohack.ca> wrote:
At Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:40 -0600, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'
The Register
A somewhat similar thing has happened with Plan9.
There are multiple “successor” projects, some basically single-person projects, others
semi-official with legal structure, others larger groups of like-minded developers.
The are high levels of acrimony between the groups, and no accepted processes for evolving
together.
Periodically, some naive passerby will suggest a common core repository, perhaps even
using a popular technology, and they’ll get barbecued in the resulting flamefest.
So it goes.
d
.... There was no upstream
anymore. Csrg was gone, and all successor BSD projects assumed they were
the new upstream.
Hmmm.... I never really thought of it that way before!
I guess I had hoped everyone would come to realize a new
one-size-fits-all upstream would be a "good thing", or
perhaps even a necessity, and that none would automatically
slip into thinking they were it without first reaching some
consensus with other projects