Cost of Reiser4 Repacker and Resizer

Cost of Reiser4 Repacker and Resizer

[michael chang]

From what I've heard is that Namesys are interested in creating
Repackers, Resizers, and Converters for Reiser4.  However, I've also
heard the development of these could be "accelerated" with the
assistance of some funds.

In particular, I want to know if there is group fundraising for these
"features", what the quote will be for Namesys to expect to recieve
for:

Resier4 Online Repacker
Reiser4 resizer
ResierFS to Reiser4 Converter

Optionally, I'm also looking at
Reiser4 Windows Driver
Reiser4 Repacker (Online and Offline variants)
optionally.

I was wondering if Namesys is willing to give some quotes for prices
they'd be willing to implement these features for; assuming that the
payment is achieved through group fundraising.  [If the goals aren't
met, at the moment, it appears the course of action will be to refund
all group participants' monies and "cancel" the order.]

Methods for fundraising would also be appreciated; the only method of
fundraising I've seen to date is "Fundable" (fundable.org) -- which
uses Paypal (accepts USD only, atm, even though Paypal supports other
currencies; probably due to the nature of the project); and there are
two drawbacks -- since I don't live in the US myself, I can't
contribute via Paypal (not that I have an account currently anyways),
and the second thing is that for amounts over I believe $500, a
business account is required (which means that fees will be deducted
upon receipt of the funds; see
[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside&countries=].
 If someone else organizes the Fundable project; and then pays Namesys
via Paypal, then this means that charges will be double-incurred --
the solution thereafter would be to make sure the payments go straight
to Namesys (as opposed to going through a third party). 
Unfortunately, I don't have access to much funds at the moment to get
us started (I'm a minor), but I'm interested to get this moving.

I've heard many proposals for this kind of thing, but I want to see
what the incurred costs should add up to, and hopefully get the ball
rolling.

-- 
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
 - No man is an island, and no man is unable.

Re: Cost of Reiser4 Repacker and Resizer

[Hans Reiser]

michael chang wrote:

>>From what I've heard is that Namesys are interested in creating
>Repackers, Resizers, and Converters for Reiser4.  However, I've also
>heard the development of these could be "accelerated" with the
>assistance of some funds.
>
>In particular, I want to know if there is group fundraising for these
>"features", what the quote will be for Namesys to expect to recieve
>for:
>
>Resier4 Online Repacker
>Reiser4 resizer
>  
>
The above we will do (online version) for $90k, plus 5% of disk drive
hardware costs, we may have a sponsor for it.....

>ResierFS to Reiser4 Converter
>  
>
This could be done by making convertfs professional quality, I would
guess $10k.

>Optionally, I'm also looking at
>Reiser4 Windows Driver
>  
>
Windows driver will be proprietary.

>Reiser4 Repacker (Online and Offline variants)
>optionally.
>  
>
See above.

>I was wondering if Namesys is willing to give some quotes for prices
>they'd be willing to implement these features for; assuming that the
>payment is achieved through group fundraising.  [If the goals aren't
>met, at the moment, it appears the course of action will be to refund
>all group participants' monies and "cancel" the order.]
>
>Methods for fundraising would also be appreciated; the only method of
>fundraising I've seen to date is "Fundable" (fundable.org) -- which
>uses Paypal (accepts USD only, atm, even though Paypal supports other
>currencies; probably due to the nature of the project); and there are
>two drawbacks -- since I don't live in the US myself, I can't
>contribute via Paypal (not that I have an account currently anyways),
>and the second thing is that for amounts over I believe $500, a
>business account is required (which means that fees will be deducted
>upon receipt of the funds; see
>[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside&countries=].
> If someone else organizes the Fundable project; and then pays Namesys
>via Paypal, then this means that charges will be double-incurred --
>the solution thereafter would be to make sure the payments go straight
>to Namesys (as opposed to going through a third party). 
>Unfortunately, I don't have access to much funds at the moment to get
>us started (I'm a minor), but I'm interested to get this moving.
>
>I've heard many proposals for this kind of thing, but I want to see
>what the incurred costs should add up to, and hopefully get the ball
>rolling.
>
>  
>