Re: who gets paid for this

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christian Bird <cabird(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: who gets paid for this
Date: 2007-03-19 17:32:24
Message-ID: 200703191732.l2JHWOQ01813@momjian.us
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Dave Page wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Christian Bird wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm a grad student at UC Davis studying the postgres community and I
> >> wanted to know if some on this list could help me out. I'm studying
> >> the factors that affect people "graduating" from being mailing list
> >> participant to developers with write access to the repository.
> >
> > It is done on a meritocracy basis and has zero bearing if the person is
> > paid to work on PostgreSQL or not.
> >
> > I believe (would need verification) that it is -core who decides who
> > gets actual commit privileges.
>
> It is. Note also that not all of core are committers.

And many committers are not core.

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