[OpenAFS] the future

[Troy Benjegerdes]

How much would you pay per month to be listed on the 'donate' landing
page as an OpenAFS supporter, and have access to nag-free binaries?

As a comparison, what is your college monthly spend on RHEL? How
do we, as a community of developers, make a case to your management
that the value provided by AFS is of the same order of magnitude as
a RHEL subscription (**or** the staff time for maintaining CentOS),
and make the same order of magnitude contribution to OpenAFS.

I think in-kind donation of staff time and machines for testing new
releases would be an excellent way to make non-monetary contributions.


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 07:36:55PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 02:33:07PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > src/aklog$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../lib ./aklog
> > This software is free software, and depends on your ongoing support
> > Please consider a donation to http://openafs.org/Donate
> > src/tfs/src/aklog$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../lib ./aklog -nonag
> > src/tfs/src/aklog$ 
> 
> I can tell you right now that I'd probably patch the source to remove
> this in our environment.  It would break so much stuff, and just
> further prove to my management that AFS is on its way out, since now I
> have to maintain local patches.
> 
> --
> Jonathan Billings <jsbillin@umich.edu>
> College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support
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