On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:07 AM, David Leimbach<leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I for one am quite grateful for the sources machine. > My guess is if we didn't have it, we'd have to create a grid based > "contrib", and we'd probably have to have some kind of 9grid based registry > to find everyone's contributions.
I'm not sure how this would work out, perhaps something along the lines of http://9gridchan.org But in any case it would be an improvement over the current situation where people that asks for a sources account spend months and months twiddling their thumbs, thinking that for some horrible reason the people that run sources hate them, and that it is pointless to try to contribute to Plan 9 (various people have told me of their worries that perhaps they were not 'qualified' to have a sources account and that perhaps that was why their requests were being ignored, and I had to explain to them that, hell, if I had a sources account, *anyone* no matter how stupid or incompetent should be allowed to have one, not to mean they were either stupid or incompetent, they were highly qualified and motivated people that were interested in contributing their work, and that were feeling directly shunned and unwelcome). uriel
