posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

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.

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