Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an offer to anyone by the way...


Petr Janda wrote:
> How much would you like me to pay you? Honest, give me estimate on how 
> long this is going to take. If price is good, id also hire someone to 
> add NSS support.
>
> Cheers,
> Petr
>
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > Petr Janda wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Could someone please port these from FreeBSD or NetBSD? Without them 
> > > it seem is impossible to install powerdns-recusor.
> > >
> > > Can anyone do it in their spare time please?
> >
> > As I keep saying, open source usually doesn't work this way.  This is 
> > how I see open source working:
> >
> > (a) you need something, you do it
> > (b) you need something, you nag about it
> > (c) you need something, you offer to pay for it (code bounty), 
> > somebody takes it and does it for you
> >
> > so, what we can see, (b) doesn't help if nobody matches (a) nor (c).  
> > of course you could have success by doing (b) so long until somebody 
> > either shows enough mercy and does it or gets interested himself and 
> > goes to (a).  so if you *really* want something, (a) and (c) are the 
> > fastest ways.  if your abilities do not match (a), you have to match 
> > (c).  it's simple as that.  people are volunteering and (as you 
> > observed correctly) doing stuff in their spare time.  of course this 
> > leads to the result that people only actually do what they like to do 
> > and this does not necessarily match what *other* people would like 
> > them to do.  offering money can overcome this problem.  i think this 
> > is a fair model where everybody can contribute, either by writing 
> > code ((a)) or by supporting somebody who writes code ((c)).
> >
> > cheers
> >   simon
> >
> > ps: i think *context does not have to be a kernel function like in 
> > freebsd, but i'd like to hear more opinions on that