Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
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

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Even more to the point, getting paid for has almost nothing to do with has commit privileges. At least on this project. Darn. So the cheque isn't really in the mail? cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:10:22 -0800, Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Even more to the point, getting paid for has almost nothing to do with has commit privileges. At least on this project. Darn. So the cheque isn't really in the mail? I think his question was just which ratio of developers works on PostgreSQL on

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Dave Page
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

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-09 Thread Christian Bird
I didn't mean to imply that getting paid is correlated with getting commit privileges. However, there is literature that supports the idea that those who are under employ to help in OSS projects may behave differently than those who are contributing in their free time (check out

[HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-08 Thread Christian Bird
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. Is it possible to

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-08 Thread Christian Bird
Hi all, I'm a grad student at UC Davis studying the apache server 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. Is it possible

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Christian, More specifically, could those who worked on apache as some aspect of their job prior to getting repo access let me know? Or if there are devs who know this information about others, I'd be really appreciative to get it. Hmmm. Wrong project. And I think you're making the

Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this

2007-03-08 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: Christian, More specifically, could those who worked on apache as some aspect of their job prior to getting repo access let me know? Or if there are devs who know this information about others, I'd be really appreciative to get it. Hmmm. Wrong