Funding Cyrus High Availability

[Ken Murchison]

Lee wrote:

> What do people think about a bounty program like horde's:
> 
> http://www.horde.org/bounties/
> 
> Basically people can make paypal donations to fund certain features. For 
> something like the high availability support, Im guessing that ALOT of 
> people would donate small to large amounts of cash to see this 
> functionality implemented ( i certainly would).
> 
> What do you all think?


Works for me.


> 
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 5:30 AM, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>>>> I wouldn't hold out hope of anything being available in "some months".
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote my replication code two years ago, and submitted it to Rob 
>>>>> and Ken about this time last year. Neither I or they have put any 
>>>>> significant work into the code since then. As I indicated in my 
>>>>> previous message, we all have other priorities right now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can imagine, but I hoped that priorities would change a bit with 
>>>> the amount of users that repeatedly
>>>
>>>
>>> This link appears dead.  All I get is "To clipboard".
>>
>>
>> Oops. There was never supposted to be a link :-)
>>
>>>> interest in this feature and with the money we are willing to put in 
>>>> :-|
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm willing to work on it if there is money available.  You are the 
>>> only one that has says that you would commit money.  Where are the 
>>> rest of the folks?  Based on the number of people that stepped up to 
>>> pay for virtdomains support (zero), I'm guessing there are fewer out 
>>> there willing to spend money than you think.  But I could be wrong.
>>
>>
>> I'm happy to see that there are indeed others interested in this ;-)
>>
>>> Other than the altnamespace project ($5000) that I did for a 
>>> (unnamed) company in Texas, Jeremy Howard at Fastmail is the only one 
>>> who has consistently paid for features.  I'll let him disclose what 
>>> he has spent, if he chooses to, but its safe to say that its been 
>>> more than just pizza and beer.
>>
>>
>> I expected more then pizza and beer, so that's no surprise :-)
>>
>>> I'd have to look at David's patch again and discuss things with CMU 
>>> to get a good time estimate, but I'm guessing that a project like 
>>> this would cost a few thousand dollars.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I'll start a discussion with our management based on your latest 
>> estimation ($3000-$5000) and I'll let you know about the results. 
>> (Might take a while, I think at least not this week. If you have more 
>> details (for instance time estimation) let me know.)
>>
>> Bye,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
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