From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 22 23:25:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B561065670 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8878FC1F for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NYSsD-0002y8-Iv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:25:05 +0100 Received: from 93-138-99-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.138.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:25:05 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 93-138-99-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:25:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:06:25 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-138-99-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090612) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:25:11 -0000 Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest > revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing > the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as making > ZVOLs work as a dumpon device (as is already the case in OpenSolaris) > for crash dumps. I am a private individual and not some huge Fortune > 100 and while I am not exactly rich, I am willing to put some of my > personal money towards this. I am curious though, what would be the > best way to approach this: directly approaching committer(s) with the > know-how-and-why of the areas involved or through the FreeBSD > Foundation? And how would one go about calculating the appropriate > amount of money for such a thing? Hi, This idea (bounties) appear approximately every 6 months and it appears there is no better way than contacting the developers directly. AFAIK all attempts to conglomerate such an effort have failed. One important conclusion is that it cannot go through the Foundation since they cannot accept targeted donations.