SMP question

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sat, January 26, 2008 4:07 pm, Haidut wrote:

> Finally, how open is the Dfly team to the idea of hiring programmer(s)
> on an hourly basis to code things up? Obviously they will NOT have
> commit access but simply write code and submit to Matt et al for
> approval. Also, everything they develop will be released under the BSD
> license.

Code submitted from paid developers would be evaluated the same way as
code from unpaid developers (i.e. everyone so far).  Since every code
submission would represent some quantity of invested money, make sure it
happens early and often, so that a minimum is wasted if something gets
rejected.

You don't need or want approval from other people involved in DragonFly,
other than acceptable code standards.  Since this money isn't coming from
"DragonFly", but rather a separate entity, that reduces a lot of the risks
that come from a open-source group pushing money around.

Otherwise, go ahead.  It's great to have the additional support, and if it
speeds up DragonFly, that's great too.