From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 00:40:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271861065672 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E6F8FC12 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id YePa1d00E0xGWP856og6XV; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:06 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Yog51d0043S48mS3Yog5PT; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:06 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E70A71E3033; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:40:03 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:06 -0000 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 |