Sponsoring ports

[Eitan Adler]

> 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).



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Eitan Adler