On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
