Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:18 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts? Message-ID: <6201873e1001221720m294c3f09tcf6ba88a94fdbfba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan> References: <cf9b1ee01001220949y72e5ae87n46561a0a0d068b8c@mail.gmail.com> <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>wrote: > 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 | > To the best of my understanding, that is basically what donating to the FreeBSD Foundation accomplishes, although it would be nice so see some more transparency in their decision making process. -- Adam Vande More
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