From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 08:51:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DF516A415 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:51:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0873513C44C for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 17707 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jan 2007 08:51:33 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.12?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Jan 2007 08:51:33 +0000 Message-ID: <45A5FAB1.1020008@thingy.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:52:01 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070110003730.GA94711@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45A48414.5080009@freebsd.org> <45a4a055.ENGhBM9hyCZ7EPyt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <17829.6508.373404.263832@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? 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: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:51:35 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote > Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could > we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are > liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working > on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them > scratch that itch faster... What kind of funding would this type of > person need? § But presumably the reason they aren't working fast enough for your liking is that they *are* doing it in their spare time. So anything beyond that is giving up the day job, which means paying as much as the day job did for that time... a man-hour is a man-hour, really. If you want to pay someone for *literally* what they are already doing, then I'm sure they would be happier, but it wouldn't make anything happen quicker, because it's still the same amount of time spent.