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Neil Brown wrote:
|On Tuesday August 10, philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: | |>Neil Brown wrote: |> |>>On Tuesday August 10, philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: |>> |>>>Linux RAID *has* to have sort of way to force a parity resync. If it |>>>doesn't have one, it needs one. That's a glaring omission to make. |>> |>>Well, you get what you pay for..... |> |>Tell me where to send the checks. Seriously. I know you guys work hard |>on this stuff and I will gladly donate to the fund to have important (to |>me) features implemented. | |Hmmm. Awkward. |I'm not averse to doing a bit of contracting at times (taking un-paid |leave or similar from my day job), but having a fund that people can |donate to might be a bit more awkward...
So, given a request for a feature: Set up a page with a rough estimate of the cost. eg, parity resync: 2 weeks effort @ £500/day (casually picked this as a v. cheap 'commercial consultant rate' - reasonable contract rate) is £5000. Detailed estimate + design maybe a day or more at the same rate (maybe just if anyone were to ask or mandatory if you felt you would need to do this before committing to a feature). You could add promise emails to the total (eg company X may promise £2k but not until the rest has been promised up) If you wanted to use a non-refundable paypal type account and update the page as thankyous/donations/promises arrive, that could give people an idea of the likely commitment elsewhere in the community - and if you get a few £10 thankyous from home users then maybe it'll affect your priority for stuff you'd have done at some point anyway.
And put the url in your .sig :)
Just a thought.
David
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