> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good > > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only > > > for themselves. > > > > Anyone want to fund a network hacker to do all of these? Seriously? :-(
There are people doing this, for themselves. But it's not a rewrite, it's porting. There are well known recent failures (not specifically on FreeBSD but of rewrites of network stacks to achieve more modern ends). Nortel's Open IP comes immediately to mind. > What kind of sum of money are we talking about here? Can you estimate > what hacker/month effort is required? Would it make sense to setup a > [paypal] fund of some kind, hosted on freebsd.org to raise the > required sum? That way small companies and even individuals can > contribute even if the total is more than they can afford... > There is a more important question to be answered: What is the exact set of goals to be achieved by the rewrite? Many people/companies forget this and end in a muddle. I'm a big fan of rewriting/reworking the BSD stack because I've seen it pushed to its very edges and know the difficulties but unless there is a strong goal that can be stuck to the effort is doomed from the start. > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise > support from the community. Otherwise, folks may worry that these big > changes, once implemented, will get stuck in the commit queue forever. What we need is a sub-project here. Later, George To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
