On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> > Agree. > > For contract/long term tasks sure.. jobs is the right place, but we > should > > have a place where people can "sponsor" short, specific, features in > > FreeBSD. It may be more than just ports, it may also be functionally > changes > > to the OS. > > This often results in people offering very low sums of money for very > large amounts of work. > IMHO the comitters should set the price for the work and we should > have a system to pool individual donations for such work. > One such example is Doug Barton's portmaster work (see > http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html). > I don't know the deep details, but I've heard that the FreeBSD Foundation cannot take escrow deposits like this for legal reasons. I wonder if there has been any thought by the Foundation to use some of it's funding to spin off some type of legal and technical infrastructure that could handle such a system. If the barrier to entry isn't too high, I suspect something like this would be a great boon to base, ports, and freelance devs. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
