> 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 :) 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" 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... Ed W