Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:40:03 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts? Message-ID: <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001220949y72e5ae87n46561a0a0d068b8c@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001220949y72e5ae87n46561a0a0d068b8c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:49:46PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest > revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing > the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as making > ZVOLs work as a dumpon device (as is already the case in OpenSolaris) > for crash dumps. I am a private individual and not some huge Fortune > 100 and while I am not exactly rich, I am willing to put some of my > personal money towards this. I am curious though, what would be the > best way to approach this: directly approaching committer(s) with the > know-how-and-why of the areas involved or through the FreeBSD > Foundation? And how would one go about calculating the appropriate > amount of money for such a thing? For what it's worth: count me in here, and not just with regards to zvol. I'd be more than happy to donate money to a pool (pun intended) to get some of the ZFS-centric issues looked at / focused on, and possibly fixed. I'd be willing to put up a thousand USD or possibly more depending on what sort of work was being considered. I suppose a better choice would be for someone here to make a list of issues which the community feels need attention, and put the pooled donations to whatever things had highest priority -- or, if that isn't plausible, then to what interested developers wanted to work on. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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