From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 19:31:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525A31065672 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56CF8FC1C for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so7134277fxe.17 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:31:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zESfUlh9xoLOSXFQ/OPwmZj+P4widNtiFnWRLLwrS4c=; b=aC/+Web87iEtRMTt8Zscws0PlSOd5QF9DloVGpKh1tqry6hkqsJg8KQ3r1C5cpCCgz mtn1sh37Mk9Q6Mwt6lLg+F2UilWxi6zXq09hdd2yanGxWypvqtbnimGEa5KLwrp5WE0K QM1Mb7uK3w89VaGiQ5ztzqX6OManNBR5sX+Lg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.68.22 with SMTP id t22mr7188144fai.145.1311620997733; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.124.67 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:09:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E2CE885.1090206@stringsutils.com> <4E2DA026.3020606@stringsutils.com> <4E2DB601.9000600@stringsutils.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:09:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chris Rees , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Francisco Reyes Subject: Re: Sponsoring ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:48 -0000 On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Eitan Adler 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