Devin Heitmueller wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So now (with my donation) we have him working at $1/hour assuming that
it takes only 100 hours..
Well, this assumes that it would only take 100 hours, of which given
the complexity of the device, it will probably take more than twice
that (since it's a PCI device and the estimates I gave are for USB
devices).
If nothing else, it offers some insight as to how valuable the work of
people like Steven is (he has written a whole bunch of different
drivers). It also demonstrates one reason there are so few developers
willing to do this sort of work. Getting a developer to donate a
couple of evening's worth of time is pretty easy. Getting them to
make a commitment of every day for the next two to three months is
quite harder.
It takes a massive amount of time from all of the core developers to keep the
v4l-dvb tree up to date and to add new functionality.
Adding a new style of board to an existing driver can take a couple of hours
with testing. It's bread a butter maintenance task.
However, adding a brand new bridge driver to the kernel can take 6 months just
for the first release, and is then slowly improved over the next 12-24 months.
It's a large task.
- Steve
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