[ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

Charles Elliott elliott.ch at comcast.net
Fri Oct 24 12:41:03 UTC 2014


Could ntp.org outsource the work with Mechanical Turk or at 
one of the volunteer social networking sites, whose names
I don't know; I have just read exist.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: questions-bounces+elliott.ch=comcast.net at lists.ntp.org
> [mailto:questions-bounces+elliott.ch=comcast.net at lists.ntp.org] On
> Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 12:43 PM
> To: questions at lists.ntp.org
> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval
> on upstream hosts
> 
> Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> > Please email me the bug numbers.
> >
> > We don't have nearly enough volunteers to get the work done.
> >
> > This is why I frequently solicit volunteer help as well as financial
> > support.  If we get enough financial support I can start hiring
> > developers.
> 
> I think it is unrealistic to get enough money from donations to hire
> professional developers.  You may get enough money to buy some hardware
> to facilitate development, or to pay hosting or hardware for a website
> or source archive, etc.  When I would donate money it would be like
> $50,
> that would be insignificant when compared to a professional developer
> tariff.
> 
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