On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 01:05:32PM +0000, John Kelly wrote:

That's fine. If, and only if, the donor is willing to fund the entire project themselves. Otherwise, you get the following:

<hypothetical> 2 projects. Both of them important to FreeBSD.

Project A is slick, sexy, and will attract lots of attention.

Project B isn't as attractive, but still needs doing.

You, the donor (who (probably) has only a small understanding of the FreeBSD internals) really wants project A to happen.

David Greenmen, principal architect, believes that project B is more important to FreeBSD (perhaps there are three other projects that can't get off the ground until project B is completed).

All other things being equal (i.e., there's a spare developer who's looking for something to hack on, and they could do either of the two projects) which project gets tackled first? </hypothetical>

For a real world example, go and examine the issues surrounding tax hypothecation, and why this is (generally) a bad idea.

N

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