funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alex Rousskov
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only > > for themselves. > > Anyone want to fund

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote: > > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good > > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only > > > for themselves. > > > > Anyon

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Alex Rousskov wrote: > What kind of sum of money are we talking about here? Can you estimate > what hacker/month effort is required? Would it make sense to setup a > [paypal] fund of some kind, hosted on freebsd.org to raise the > required sum? That way s

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise > support from the community. Otherwise, folks may worry that these big > changes, o

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise > > support fr

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 14:40] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as > > > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment > > > or encouragem

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
> I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea, > a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering > and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux > implemented in one of their stack of the year projects) might > gain us performance. I would disag

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: > core has nothing to do with preventing or allowing completed work to > enter the tree. the quality of the code does. presumably, the people > that the foundation (or NAI or whoever) contracts to do FreeBSD work are > of high calibur and that isn't a pr

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* George V. Neville-Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:15] wrote: > > I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea, > > a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering > > and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux > > implemented in one of th

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-11-30 Thread Anthony Atkielski
George writes: > What is the exact set of goals to be achieved > by the rewrite? It will give developers some cool code to write. After all, there isn't any other reason to rewrite something if it already works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" i

Re: funding TCP stack rewrite

2001-12-01 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Fumerola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the freebsd foundation is supposed to be an a not-for-profit > organization that (amongst other things) delegates donated money to > developers for this kind of work. at their current speed, they will > be ready to provide