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? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov
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.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:49:46PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote:> 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?For what it's worth: count me in here, and not just with regards to zvol. I'd be more than happy to donate money to a pool (pun intended) to get some of the ZFS-centric issues looked at / focused on, and possibly fixed. I'd be willing to put up a thousand USD or possibly more depending on what sort of work was being considered. I suppose a better choice would be for someone here to make a list of issues which the community feels need attention, and put the pooled donations to whatever things had highest priority -- or, if that isn't plausible, then to what interested developers wanted to work on. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |