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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:59:21 +0200
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
Message-ID:  <20080605175921.5e994658.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080605125105.GA79727@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:51:05 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Offering monetary compensation is not a solution, and I believe that's
> because the core problem isn't lack of pay -- it's lack of time.
> That's one which is really hard to solve, no matter what the
> conditions of an open-source project.

Hmm, perhaps you and others should train people instead?
Offer to pay a student to learn FreeBSD, and to train her / him as
developer.
I don't know if it is at all possible to fund something like that
within the econimcs of a company such as yours, but if it worked, it
would bring more developers on board.

Just an idea.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway




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