From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 00:05:18 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 948A61065679; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mattjeet@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559208FC13; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so1223946pwi.3 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:05:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:reply-to:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ac3+p2e1Yd2SwWueZbPmWpim4uv5eetnfcarYxribXo=; b=XJMqVNadz3jtoXAd/Akacl1q1DCDC6jDI6GLtNUhEBRr1TpNYThD+wkPolyHflTbMU RYe9ut62fNXz+UbSJUfPddJkSHYKEd2aYuyqMBzZiKkWbtfnjEOE5XJBFt7E2CS5yNci tbqBfSk0n7fcnJxDDrOMiFD3i5tyhs3q2Th+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=vL5ULOW3kpK44/VHPRf2pKFuuGYgKyS966HIq8DHhVTIcVVpeoJgBAU1aif7F91c3v ab6VrbFjMuX5zZcXZomj2Ep0bmQ32KBszQhX/A5pRoNMi6fqw9ZEhHKndmZ6JsVIL3S2 f4yoM69Hk7wiYA3p7rVeXmZiyzul5wN34fcVk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mattjeet@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.1.20 with SMTP id 20mr2460947wfa.73.1264203320891; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:35:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:35:20 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f0816e0fa82657ee Message-ID: <9740caf1001221535l1fcb45f0pa189c84517640314@mail.gmail.com> From: Matt Olander To: Ivan Voras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: matt@ixsystems.com 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 00:05:18 -0000 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> 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? > > Hi, > > This idea (bounties) appear approximately every 6 months and it appears > there is no better way than contacting the developers directly. AFAIK all > attempts to conglomerate such an effort have failed. One important > conclusion is that it cannot go through the Foundation since they cannot > accept targeted donations. Awhile back, we built a simple app for posting bounties, getting devs and sponsors on board, posting the committed code in a browser viewable format, and then handle final payout upon completion. iXsystems is more than willing to handle financial details and I would gladly be the first to sponsor this project on the site. http://www.sponsorbsd.org We would need a team leader *cough* Ivan *cough* that could make sure developing contributors are actually involved so that the final payoff can be shared accordingly. It's a cakephp app and I'm sure it needs a bit more polish but we could do it on the fly and it shouldn't be to hard :) Any cakephp or php devs interested in helping testing and launch, let me know. I just haven't had much time to spend on launching it although I still think it's a great idea. If somebody would like to spearhead this effort, that would be great. For companies wishing to sponsor non-community code, it also has the option of hiding the community committed code. best, -matt