Commercial sponsorship of bzr development? (was Re: 2GB limit)

[Maritza Mendez]

I would like to know also.  I am not at all sure that I could get
funding from my current employer but I have (and probably will again!)
work for a company that would.  I also looked around the Canonical
corporate pages a few weeks ago...if they have this kind of thing it
is not obvious...not even a place drop off a free beer.  :)



On 10/2/10, Brian de Alwis <briandealwis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2-Oct-2010, at 3:49 PM, Maritza Mendez wrote:
>> 1. How soon is bug 109114 [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/109114]
>> likely to get attention from Canonical?
>
> Martin, given that this and some other issues seem to be of importance to
> commercial entities, I idly wondered what it would cost for contracting
> Canonical for implementation.  I tried trawling from the Bazaar home page
> for a link describing Canonical's consulting rates or contacts for project
> estimation, but didn't find anything — a page about Canonical and
> open-source, and some pages on Core Engineering relating to Ubuntu.  And the
> contact-us form from the engineering page leads to an unrelated form for
> establishing Ubuntu-related partnerships.
>
> I am assuming that Canonical would undertake contract work.  Ideally there
> would be a page that set out some initial ballpark figures for different
> scopes of work — enough to help someone determine if it's worth his/her
> while to approach management for a budget request.  For some of these
> companies, sponsoring the development may cost far less than switching to an
> alternative system, especially if several companies shared the costs.
>
> And if there are other bzr hackers who are available for hire, perhaps you
> should add yourselves to the support page
> (http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrSupport).  It's pretty sparse!
>
> Brian.
>