Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:55:41 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080605205541.a2e26693.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <48481BF4.4030209@FreeBSD.org> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <BFF61274-C192-4361-9DEB-93DED2E02CA7@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <484736E0.6090004@samsco.org> <C69AC20A-225C-478D-B0C8-B2F018B555C6@netconsonance.com> <4847D5F8.80605@FreeBSD.org> <20080605125105.GA79727@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080605175921.5e994658.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <48481BF4.4030209@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:01:40 -0700 Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:51:05 -0700 > > Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > >> Offering monetary compensation is not a solution, and I believe > >> that's because the core problem isn't lack of pay -- it's lack of > >> time. That's one which is really hard to solve, no matter what the > >> conditions of an open-source project. > > > > Hmm, perhaps you and others should train people instead? > > Offer to pay a student to learn FreeBSD, and to train her / him as > > developer. > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html Yes, I know about Google SoC, and it is a good thing (a _very_ good thing). I was thinking more along the lines that if offering money for fixing stuff doesn't work, then maybe getting more interest (in addition to SoC) would work better. Therer must be a reason why nobody has formed a commercial compnay to fix bugs / develop new features fro FreeBSD (either with own employees or with hired people) already. To me, that means that the demand isn't big enough to make it a viable business plan. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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