Re: spinlocks

I was thinking the developer we would pay would already be a
CVS-commiting OBSD developer. So this person would already be all caught
up on what would need to happen with the integration/politics. Plus, I
imagine going through Theo wouldn't be very productive... Just from what
I've seen.

It really shouldn't be any different than a developer just working on
SMP by himself, only we're "motivating" him.... With money.


I may admit early defeat here.. Trying to pay a developer for specific
work seems to open up a can of worms.. Get the idea the only way to
influence the direction of this project is to be a very good developer,
or someone with crazy amounts of money (DARPA)


Chris


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:09, Marco Feenstra wrote:
> I figured that Theo normally dispenses the OpenBSD funds to developers, so in 
> starting this sideshow get some advise from theo about his plans for the next 
> OpenBSD release because as has been pointed out before, the integration of 
> SMP touches every or at least lots of inches in OpenBSD and if theo is not 
> cooperative, due different priorities for OpenBSD you are essentially 
> throwing away your money.
> 
> PS I'll be interested in funding 1 developerhour per month at least for the 
> first three months. After that a progress report would be in order to see if 
> we are throwing our money away in this SMP project.  See if you can get the 
> other 160-200 hours filled up.  My preference would be doing it via the 
> openbsd paypall if possible. 
> 
> You could also pay him to be an coder/coordinator because there must be some 
> people on this list who have some time and some knowlegde (Bachelor Computer 
> Science) to be educated on what to look for in the openbsd code and rewrite 
> it to be reentrant / SMP safe. This way the money invested in the coder might 
> be  more effecient in the long run because your create more people who can 
> code and diagnose SMP problems. 

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