> Rainer Orth wrote: > > Quaker Fang <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > >> See 6770265. WPA-Enterprise support has been > logged in project database, > >> and it's on my todo list; > >> but unfortunately, this project's status is > unfunded, and priority is low. > >> I will escalate this to management, and hopefully > we could raise the > >> priority. :-( > >> > > > > Great, thanks. It seems strange that Sun invests > heavily in Campus > > Ambassadors and stuff like that to get the EDU > community back to Solaris, > > but won't fund this project. > > > > Sometimes the resource constraint might not strictly > be money. There > are a finite number of engineers ("e") who are > capable of running a > project like that, and none of them are "cheap". > There are also a > umber of projects that need engineers with those > skills, (call it > "p"). If "p > e", then some projects will > necessarily need to take a > backseat. > > I can think of at least a half dozen projects off of > the top of my head > which we would like to do, but simply lack sufficient > resources to > accomplish without putting other higher priority > projects into jeopardy. > > -- Garrett
Then perhaps money could come out of a marketing pot and go to bounties for projects that further said marketing goals (as a hypothetical example, use on university campuses)? Between money and recognition, and especially for that particular audience, there ought to be plenty of hungry students out there willing and able to participate... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
