From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936181AbXGMWeR (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:34:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932208AbXGMWeF (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:34:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46425 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932226AbXGMWeE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:34:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4697FDC8.6040407@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:33:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Smith CC: Randy Dunlap , Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86 setup code rewrite in C References: <200707102032.29124.a1426z@gawab.com> <4693F08B.5060904@zytor.com> <200707110007.09728.a1426z@gawab.com> <4693F68E.1070309@zytor.com> <20070710143343.1fb2d76b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4693FC4E.507@zytor.com> <9b53a56d0707110435y5320f060nf1d0e8cb0782a848@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9b53a56d0707110435y5320f060nf1d0e8cb0782a848@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Smith wrote: > On 7/10/07, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> So far our effort at getting paid staff seems to have fallen through :( >> >> -hpa > > Presumably the 501c status hasn't changed since OLS? > If a paid position isn't forthcoming, perhaps there can be a bounty > system for people to contribute $ towards desired functionality. 501(c)3 is still pending, unfortunately. We actually get a lot of offer for volunteers, but we can't use them because we lack the kind of management structure needed to run them. As a result, we can only take on people willing to spend a sizable chunk of time doing kernel.org stuff, *and* are already known by the rest of the admin team to be self-starters. However, even that is really difficult enough. kernel.org definitely takes a lot more of my time than I would like. -hpa