From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 05:12:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01554 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 05:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01545 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 05:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15798; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:06:24 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13090; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:11:33 GMT Message-ID: <19980304131132.19720@iii.co.uk> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:11:32 +0000 To: John Kelly Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. References: <12740.888967601@time.cdrom.com> <34fec28f.98429829@mail.cetlink.net> <34FCF201.B9B5DB16@acm.org> <34fd483f.682772@mail.cetlink.net> <19980304124149.57634@iii.co.uk> <350150dc.2887681@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <350150dc.2887681@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 01:05:32PM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 01:05:32PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: > Developers who want to choose their own projects can continue working > pro bono. But developers who want to get paid for the work should be > willing to work under the donors direction. That's fine. If, and only if, the donor is willing to fund the entire project themselves. Otherwise, you get the following: 2 projects. Both of them important to FreeBSD. Project A is slick, sexy, and will attract lots of attention. Project B isn't as attractive, but still needs doing. You, the donor (who (probably) has only a small understanding of the FreeBSD internals) really wants project A to happen. David Greenmen, principal architect, believes that project B is more important to FreeBSD (perhaps there are three other projects that can't get off the ground until project B is completed). All other things being equal (i.e., there's a spare developer who's looking for something to hack on, and they could do either of the two projects) which project gets tackled first? For a real world example, go and examine the issues surrounding tax hypothecation, and why this is (generally) a bad idea. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message