John Wang wrote:
Seems like being a committer can be rather lucrative.
I think being an Apache committer on any project can be somewhat
lucrative. Companies know that you probably work well with others if
your a committer, which can probably lead to improved career
opportunities. Cant say too much about working well with others :) I may
not be extracting as much money as I can though - sounds like I could be
taking bribes to commit code if I wanted to make more ;)
My comment was on the statements of being volunteers and don't get
paid, which is a little misleading.
It depends. Sometimes, something your doing with a customer might make
its way into Lucene. Thats not most of the work that goes on here
though. Most of the work is looking at submitted patches in our free
time, going over them, running the tests, and possibly committing them.
I do that for the project because I like to, not for any money I'm
getting (true enough I havnt been a core committer long, but I did the
same as a contrib committer). When I'm sitting around at 11 at night or
7 in the morning, trying to get patches committed, I'd hate to be
classified as a non volunteer. Its just as easy to get the committer
title and then fall off the face of the world. No one ensures you are
helping anyone get anything done.
I guess I need to learn to be a good boy not to piss off the
committers anymore (or convince my company to pay to get some patches
in) And hopefully someday I get to grow up and get to become a
committer and make some $ too.
You might consider it. I think you have been a bit rude, but watch and
see...quality patches you submit will still get processed like any
other. The people around here are friendly and mainly interested in the
quality of Lucene. Noone is trying to enforce some sort of "power elite"
here. There is no blacklist. At the same time, lashing out isnt going to
help get any issues passed (in fact, I've seen it flounder more than one
issue).
I've certainly never been involved in Lucene for the money myself (and I
don't have much of it, believe you me).
- Mark
-John
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