Re: Last gasp

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> I want to caution against adjusting things to improve funding
> possibilities. There is nothing wrong with increasing funding
> possibilities, per say, but such changes often distort behavior in
> unforeseen ways that adversely affect our community process.

I don't see this as much of a problem. If somewhat arbitrary labels
and powers allow the project to succeed, we should think long and
hard before rejecting the idea. It's not like we are going to make
anyone who asks a committer, like MediaWiki does. Indeed, we have
been super cautious about handing out both commit bits, and labels
(e.g. "Major Developer").

One wrinkle is the subsystems: there are some people who only work on
certain parts, yet have a commit bit (with the understanding that
they won't start editing core or other parts). From an outside
perspective however, a "Postgres committer [of certain subsystems]"
is a "Postgres committer".

One thing I think would help potential and current developers, and
act as a further code review and safety valve, is to have a mailing
list that actually shows the committed diffs. Links to a webpage
showing the diff is just not the same.

pgsql-commit-diffs(at)postgresql(dot)org, anyone?

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
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