Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:09:57 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Subject: Re: Sponsoring ports Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK1jTyOv%2BuwO9wTbS-K9OQ2e6gAOpPXc2fCX=2WGJxefXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkeH7142N0UJG1heijjKnB%2BwGJe8hzHS%2BsVQ3UkizReDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E2CE885.1090206@stringsutils.com> <CADLo839--1wps773MP%2Bkbg8PKj-Rxm25eAoWgbvpzF3VoVR3HQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E2DA026.3020606@stringsutils.com> <CAF6rxgmY72FWYssKQyY54T9q5VMXSx_hoFZOV1cuANih0HE=Lw@mail.gmail.com> <4E2DB601.9000600@stringsutils.com> <CAF6rxgkeH7142N0UJG1heijjKnB%2BwGJe8hzHS%2BsVQ3UkizReDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > > Agree. > > For contract/long term tasks sure.. jobs is the right place, but we > should > > have a place where people can "sponsor" short, specific, features in > > FreeBSD. It may be more than just ports, it may also be functionally > changes > > to the OS. > > This often results in people offering very low sums of money for very > large amounts of work. > IMHO the comitters should set the price for the work and we should > have a system to pool individual donations for such work. > One such example is Doug Barton's portmaster work (see > http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html). > I don't know the deep details, but I've heard that the FreeBSD Foundation cannot take escrow deposits like this for legal reasons. I wonder if there has been any thought by the Foundation to use some of it's funding to spin off some type of legal and technical infrastructure that could handle such a system. If the barrier to entry isn't too high, I suspect something like this would be a great boon to base, ports, and freelance devs. -- Adam Vande More
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