Re: [9front] MP4/VP9, SSH & TLS Bounty Numbers and Progress

[Dmad <dmadhatr@sdf.org>]

Stanley,

Sent funds through Patreon, satisfy whatever bounties are outstanding, and 
I'll leave in that recurring donation for a few months.

DMad

On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Dmad wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 14:30:29 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Dmad <dmadhatr@sdf.org>
> Reply-To: 9front@9front.org
> To: 9front@9front.org
> Subject: Re: [9front] MP4/VP9, SSH & TLS Bounty Numbers and Progress
> 
>
> Dealer's choice, your discretion - I'm not that overly familiar with the 
> project's needs, you know more about it than I do.
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Stanley Lieber wrote:
>
>>  Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:26:35 -0400
>>  From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
>>  Reply-To: 9front@9front.org
>>  To: 9front@9front.org
>>  Subject: Re: [9front] MP4/VP9, SSH & TLS Bounty Numbers and Progress
>>
>>  On September 6, 2023 10:17:38 AM EDT, Dmad <dmadhatr@sdf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Stanley,
>>>
>>>  Is this your patreon?  https://www.patreon.com/stanleylieber/
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>>> 
>>>
>>>  On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Stanley Lieber wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:04:45 -0400
>>>>  From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
>>>>  Reply-To: 9front@9front.org
>>>>  To: 9front@9front.org
>>>>  Subject: Re: [9front] MP4/VP9, SSH & TLS Bounty Numbers and Progress
>>>>
>>>>  On September 6, 2023 9:59:33 AM EDT, Lucas Francesco
>>>>  <lucas.francesco93@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>  Hey, just wanna tip out some of them MIGHT be outdated, like the
>>>>>  MP4/VP9 one. We have a vpx/h264/av1 decoder/encoder working and that's
>>>>>  stated there, but I'm almost sure the request was for an inhouse
>>>>>  library (and that's why the bounty is still there even though we can
>>>>>  decode, play and encode video) and another caveat on that one is that
>>>>>  I'm almost sure the person that put that bounty there is dead.
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>>  I know there's still people wanting a proper inhouse ssh server since
>>>>>  people were using a hacky one written in go, but you're reading the
>>>>>  TLS part wrong:  it's already done and it's missing on payments,
>>>>>  anything below the "DONE (pay up, deadbeats) " part is stuff that we
>>>>>  already have but the person that put the bounty there either didn't
>>>>>  pay or did not update us about the bounty being already paid, this is
>>>>>  due to the bounty board being 100% put up by people on ml/irc saying
>>>>>  they want stuff and the fact that 9front.org "itself" does not hold
>>>>>  the money to pay up the bounty.
>>>>>
>>>>>  As for increasing the bounties, this is all a community effort, 9front
>>>>>  isn't funded by anyone besides our time and money and the general
>>>>>  community wisdom nowadays is that increasing them isn't making people
>>>>>  do it, and bounties aren't enforced by 9front so any way this might
>>>>>  happen is convincing people that putting more money on the line is
>>>>>  worthwhile.
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Wed, 6 Sept 2023 at 09:42, Dmad <dmadhatr@sdf.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Greetings,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Was reading through Plan9 Haters late last night and saw the bounties
>>>>>>  printed there.  Are those bounties still outstanding (just saw the
>>>>>>  printed
>>>>>>  ones are nearly identical to https://fqa.9front.org/appendixb.html)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I'm not a C programmer, but a SOC guy - however, thinking that a
>>>>>>  little
>>>>>>  more sauce on the kitty (increasing the bounties) may be beneficial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Those are the three I am interested in - let me know if there is
>>>>>>  something
>>>>>>  more pressing for the project that needs focus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  dmadhatr@sdf.org
>>>>>>  SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>  yeah, the list is more aspirational than legally binding. there's no
>>>>  mechanism for fulfillment or enforcement.  the right way to handle it is
>>>>  to pay people whenever the spirit convicts you. (or pay me to remove
>>>>  entries that bother you.)
>>>>
>>>>  sl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>
>>>  dmadhatr@sdf.org
>>>  SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
>>> 
>>
>>  that depends,  which entry did you want me to remove?
>>
>>  sl
>> 
>> 
>
> dmadhatr@sdf.org
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>

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