> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io.  It
> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015.

Please look more closely:

cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources
post...
cpu% ls -lrt /n/sources/patch/*/files|tail -24
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst        sys 160 Mar 18  2016 
/n/sources/patch/kexportfs/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 102 Apr 19  2016 
/n/sources/patch/segment-overlap/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  30 Apr 19  2016 
/n/sources/patch/proc-smp-fixes/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 172 Apr 19  2016 
/n/sources/patch/armv7-atomic/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 djc        sys  36 Apr 19  2016 
/n/sources/patch/pread-offset/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst        sys  33 May 22  2016 
/n/sources/patch/dial-await-bug/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  38 May 29  2016 
/n/sources/patch/usbserial-ftdi-writelen/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 bootes     sys  76 May 29  2016 
/n/sources/patch/usbether-rpi/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  29 May 30  2016 
/n/sources/patch/ramfs-fixes/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 272 Nov  6  2016 
/n/sources/patch/wpa-psk/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 fst        sys  43 Feb  9  2017 
/n/sources/patch/tcp-halfduplex-close/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 stevesimon sys  44 Feb 21  2017 
/n/sources/patch/sed-unbuffered/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 102 Mar 13  2017 
/n/sources/patch/usb-ether-cdc/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 stevesimon sys  38 Mar 14  2017 
/n/sources/patch/httpfile-suicide/files
--rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none       sys  41 Jun 29  2017 
/n/sources/patch/ndb-remove-cast/files
--rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none       sys  27 Aug 30  2017 
/n/sources/patch/comm-utf-sort/files
--rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none       sys  29 Aug 30  2017 
/n/sources/patch/ascii-extra-newline/files
--rw-rw-rw- M 2032 none       sys  35 Aug 31  2017 
/n/sources/patch/gmtime-tzoff-unset/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 297 Apr  5  2018 
/n/sources/patch/usb-ether-lan78xx/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  36 Apr  5  2018 
/n/sources/patch/exec-postnote-race/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  30 Apr  5  2018 
/n/sources/patch/exit-wrong-parent/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  28 Apr  9  2018 
/n/sources/patch/ssh2-dh-group14/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys  33 Apr  9  2018 
/n/sources/patch/aes-ctr/files
--rw-rw-r-- M 2032 miller     sys 114 Apr  9  2018 
/n/sources/patch/ssh2-aes-ctr/files
cpu% 

Not a huge amount of churn there, but still a "sign of activity".  

> I've been around for a while and I
> would have trouble finding the bits needed for a day-to-day usable
> system outside of the 9front world.

"Usable" is a function of who's doing the using.  I use the Labs version
every day and it does what I need. If another version suits somebody else,
that's great.


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