From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 01:20:19 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 682D6106568B for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f183.google.com (mail-px0-f183.google.com [209.85.216.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD2C8FC1A for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi13 with SMTP id 13so1245259pxi.3 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:20:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Xq+OQgzHS7sfNDv2iY8I8lTJLnWN2RGA6jcQJ2Drh2A=; b=dKSumngcjaxZNtMxx5Fu3lw+X1GDHlGTZbNX4ZBuYLvSn+rf7bknFwI58SqcJfUtV5 qdd+gSW0suFElYnm6NYdGEj8t9OwAp03zAXrW6WaYxKIpzHcizs16qD30Mt7sGY0mpXN S+swxSQp8fPu3BjZSoOltPwLp2dgQCLIVCCAw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=t3g6u7ca5R0dST6HBqYxxxAmhmkII6o6wtdblAwMxYlIQmXlnIgxpILmgNknTVAthw UI9RZqxJehG4sPG21GAkBqEgrU2BEAV4BEBOlEGHo+ZNwOcggbbd3oByXwPRfLeydztS bIfEDFQAeQPt2PvcEQe5cuay1nTsW+qRTGfCw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.67.24 with SMTP id p24mr2480974wfa.265.1264209618483; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:20:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100123004003.GA97111@icarus.home.lan> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:18 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1001221720m294c3f09tcf6ba88a94fdbfba@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Jeremy Chadwick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 01:20:19 -0000 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick 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