On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:33:04AM +0100, Ed W wrote: > > >Ed W wrote: > >>Wilhelm Meier wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>is there any timeline to get the vserver patches ready for newer > >>>kernels than 2.6.22? > >> > >>There are some development patches in the experimental dir on the ftp > >>site - however, the key developers would work harder if there was > >>sufficient sponsorship to purchase a month or so's full time > >>consultancy to pay for some substantial development > >> > >>I would be happy to foot a reasonable fraction of that bill, but I > >>would like to canvas to see if some others will split the cost? > >> > >>Anyone up for that? > >> > >>Ed W > >Hi Ed > > > >How much are we talking about ? > > OK, I wrote to Herbert a month ago to discuss the above and I will quote > part of his answer (without his permission - hope this is OK) > > > - 5000+ EUR you have my full attention and at > > least a month worth of Linux-VServer development > > (and trust me, that's some progress :) a little out of context, but no problem :) > I am just a small business (1 person), but I would be happy to fund a > fraction of this. My budget doesn't really extend to the whole price, > but I could tip 1-2,000 Euros into the pot (I hope that other businesses > might offer something similar?) > > I have copied this to Herbert - I would personally be happy for him to > coordinate funds this if there are a few others who will contribute. > I don't want to get bogged down in speccing the work, but I would leave > the spec as "development and release of code which can be called the > next stable release of vserver to run on a more recent 2.6 linux kernel" realistically thinking, we can call it vs2.4 > As an aside - I have no idea how others will look at these numbers, but > just as a thought: yesterday I had to buy one new licence for MS Office > which cost a nice £350 GBP. Whilst there I noticed that "Office > Ultimate" (whatever the hell that is) is > £500 ! The Vista ultimate > licence which actually allows you to re-install it (non OEM) is around > £350 ish... Now my point is not about MS licencing prices, or whether I > could get them cheaper elsewhere, but the point that really we can hire > developer for a significant period of time to advance this project for > about the price of 4-5 desktops with a fully loaded retail copy of Vista > and MS Office - I don't know about you, but I have a lot more than 4 > servers running vserver code... but for that money you get first class support around the clock and ... hmm, wait a minute :) best, Herbert > Ed W