On Thu, January 26, 2006 9:21 am, David Rhodus wrote: > I was hoping that something such as a bounty system might feed some > life back into the project. Most of the development work has slowed > down to almost nothing. I'm not sure some development work will ever > be finished without some incentive. Yes, doing to work is a great > resume builder, blah blah blah, etc... But the reality is that most > people still have to work purely for economic reasons. Why not merge > two incentives into one. Though not that any amount DragonFly could > be raised would be equivalent to paying real world developer rates it > still might make doing to work more appealing.
Development has been somewhat slow, but I think that's in part because we went too long between releases, and some of the more interesting features are on hold until the subsystems are done. (Live CD with a desktop is dependent on compressed filesystems and pkgsrc, neither of which is complete, for instance.) Some people here stopped working on FreeBSD projects because they were stung by misallocation; so it is a dangerous issue. However, some approaches could have some value. For instance, if I could find another IBM 600E laptop that is the exact same submodel as the one I have, I'd gladly buy another and send it to someone who was willing and able to get the PCMCIA controller, APCI, sound, etc. supported. Hoever, I don't know how useful that would be in the long run, and I haven't found another unit.
