On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 02:07:29PM +0000, John Kelly wrote:

Bingo.

MCSNet could make a reasonably-sized donation to this cause (few thousand bucks) and would have no problem with doing so. In fact, if we had some idea what that incremental funding would do, I could make the business case to be significantly more generous. Simply put, money ain't the issue.

The issue is that there are certain things that we really *NEED* fixed, and to stay as priorities in remaining fixed as time goes on (things that used to work, and are now broken for example - specifically, NFS issues for one, and behavior under troublesome SCSI conditions [ie: returns of a defective block from the controller] for another). I'm running kernels and OSs patched up from November, specifically because since then the stability of -CURRENT is bad enough from both direct observation and reports that if the risks grossly outweigh the rewards of trying to roll an upgrade through the network right now.

If I fund the *breakage* of something critical to us, I'm shooting myself in the foot. That's unwise.

I understand that Jordan and the rest of the core team have their own priorities. They sometimes don't mesh with mine. Ok, good and well. I work around what I can, patch around what I can't work around, and remain a few rev levels back if necessary in certain areas. That level of choice is one of the nicities of a free operating system environment with source code in a CVS tree.

But for me to justify shaking loose the money on the tree, I need to be able to show benefit. That's just business - its not personal in any way.

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