On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Nick Mathewson <ni...@freehaven.net> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Nick Mathewson <ni...@freehaven.net> wrote: > [...] >> I'm thinking of offering a $500-$1000 or so apiece for a few >> tasks that have been annoying the community for a while, and which >> require either time or expertise that I don't have. I've got a few >> ideas (notably IOCP issues, better benchmarking, the evhttp->libevhtp >> translition, pluggable dns backends, smarter multithreading), but I >> want to hear your ideas too. Please send them to me **OFF LIST**, and >> I'll summarize what people are thinking late next week. > > Ow! I sure dropped the ball following up on this one! Better late than > never. > > I received exactly three suggestions by email: > * Better stability for filtering and openssl-based bufferevents. > * UDP support > * Pluggable DNS backends > > I'm also interested in the items I listed above.
So now the complete list is: * Migrating evhttp -> libevhtp * Pluggable DNS backends * Better benchmarking * IOCP robustness * Smarter multithreading. * Better stability for filtering and openssl-based bufferevents. * Better support for rate-limiting openssl bufferevents. * UDP support * Pluggable DNS backends Some of these I could do myself; some I can't. I would be shocked to see all of them get done in 0.2.4, or even half of them. So here's my plan. I'm soliciting proposals (send via personal email please) from people who'd be interested in getting some money for doing one of these. The requirements would include that the code be accepted into Libevent; that all the work be done this year; that the code be suitably licensed for inclusion in Libevent; and so on. They're all going to require some design discussion too. So if you've been thinking of working on one of these things, but haven't had time to get around to it, please take this as a good opportunity to get a little extra cash. As discussed previously, I can probably pay enough to make it more fun, but I probably can't cover competitive consulting rates, especially for the bigger tasks. If you've got any questions, just drop me a line, or stop by the #libevent channel on irc.oftc.net. As a fall-back plan: if I don't get enough proposals, I'm planning to just wait for the end of the year and randomly offer some of the cash to whoever wrote my favorite (merged) Libevent patches or code in the last half of 2012. [...] > Hm. How to stop myself from dropping the ball again? Ah, here we go: > "If I have not announced some kind of plan by Wednesday, I will upload > a video of myself performing 'I'm a little teapot'." Short and stout though I may be, this mail has gone out on time, and so I am not yet a little teapot. cheers, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
