From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 16:58:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2828BE3D; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f172.google.com (mail-vc0-f172.google.com [209.85.220.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B262B8FC0A; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id fw7so4023807vcb.17 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:58:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=82vvYnzN4LYQjjWS1M0dSTLXLmwQOF0xWFwMDxF7JlI=; b=0UQh+lpMAJuJprHdBtLeZ0G2SEmdteF9389FIxDH4gysIVnKO4clMtaGdiwqxD2Ysh ngyU40EOkIf2OUWl9Ra4waOEaJinFsZV/M3fr1AUQn3X0UpMz65IyroVizReOzE65z7F u0+hddh/YUKth983T7Szcy3Nj1HlQ3v51VEEajO01n3c/kfDTfoetaA+/uHvpIRGXWwm p33a0fJy6mhKs7/A55WCWDODGN8dLgezC9+ho/LtHCVhIEsEQK4UAhqbHZp2OOq3v/R6 pdOa2/HFt9oX3r+YW0kzRWzP7cQXjHUuTK8WVhq5V+YAO/p6jD+xwZOvdwvn6UyvYfZ2 SJ2w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.161.113 with SMTP id xr17mr16060465veb.3.1356022722050; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.214.226 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:58:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121220155816.GA46569@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20121219080412.5396aeb6@scorpio> <874njimak6.fsf@Shanna.FStaals.net> <20121219092347.4cafd59d@scorpio> <20121220100705.2cf8c311@scorpio> <20121220155816.GA46569@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:58:41 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Brooks Davis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:58:49 -0000 On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:07:05AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 +0000 > > Chris Rees articulated: > > > > > It needs porting to kevent. > > > > > > Someone may do it for payment, some may do it for fun, but no-one > > > will do it for you until you learn some manners. > > > > > > Or you could do it yourself. > > > > I have suggested several times that FreeBSD create a fund specifically > > for the hiring of professional programmers to take care of these edge > > problems. > > There is such a fund. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ > > -- Brooks > The above page and the other pages in http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ needs to be more improved . For example : In the page http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ there are the following links : http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/announcements.shtml#fundraising ( FreeBSD Foundation's Year-End Fundraising Campaign! ) http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/where.shtml ( Where does your contribution go? ) No one of the above pages makes a complete list of requirements . Mainly , donation only some money may NOT be an appropriate solution for a possible donor . In page http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/faqs.shtml there is a question : How Can I Donate Some Hardware? >From this question , there is a link to the following page : http://www.freebsd.org/donations/ In that page , there is the following link : http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html ( FreeBSD Developers Want List ) ( From this page , it is NOT possible whether the listed requirements are still existent or not , when the dates are inspected . In that form , it may be considered very unhelpful with the fact that actual ( new ) requirements are buried very OLD dates . ) After considering the above pages , it is possible to make the following suggestions : When a person suggest or specify a new requirement , please do NOT push him/her away with a smashing sentence : Evry one is NOT either a computer engineer on ( operating system software or software engineering ) or a competent software developer / porter . These may be just persons which are trying to solve their problems with very likely possibility that they are NOT able to solve their problems by themselves and telling their needs . Design the following page to serve more informative manner : http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ Insert information about http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html ( FreeBSD Developers Want List ) page ( with sorted with respect to ( date , or subject ) , and remove unnecessary items ) Insert information about names of projects which requires human labour with estimated costs ( including hardware ) to allow people to donate those projects by specifying their name(s) either money or hardware . Insert a form to get new project suggestions with promised possible donations or requesting a cost estimate ( prepared with respect to a donated amount specified on that form because to cover cost of required human labour ) to donate . With that facility , people may seek to solve their problem(s) with guaranteed outcome(s) . I think the above features will improve this page . Obviously , there may be a more useful design . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk