[OpenAFS] Putting together funds for 2.6 support

[Troy Benjegerdes]

How should we do this? Use one of those 'bounty' open source websites
that takes money for a project and holds it until it's complete?

If there's a way to make read/write AFS support for the 2.6 linux kernel
a deliverable on this, I can budget at least $1000 from DOE Ames Lab.
If someone comes up with a decent proposal to do the work with a timeline
and a couple different deliverables, we may be able to shop this around
to various DOE labs and universities as well.

Personally, I'd like to see a joint project with someone from the
OpenAFS project and David Howells at RedHat to make both the openafs
client work and the 2.6 kernel afs client work.

I'd also pay something for some updates to afsbackup as well..

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:06:47PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> >>>>> "Derek" == Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
>     Derek> Andreas <andreas@netbank.com.br> writes:
>     >> I second that. I was just waiting for openafs to have a clean
>     >> krb5 support and was caught by surprise by the lack of support
>     >> in the 2.6 kernel.  Any idea how long it would take? A year
>     >> perhaps?
> 
>     Derek> Is someone willing to fund the work?
> 
> How many here are willing to put some money where there mouth is?
> I'm prepared to put $100 US to this.
> 
> This will get the porting NOWHERE! But if all of us do, it will
> take us very faar. To the end even?
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