On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Broersma <richard.broer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> You're paying the reviewers; are you paying the mentors? > > The answer to this question is that we can fund mentor (teacher). However, > the amount to fund a mentor would be significantly less that the amount to > fund a reviewer (student). The mentors are part of the educational process.
Usually, in an educational process, it's the teachers who get paid, and the students who have to pay to get educated. I realize this is somewhat different because we want to encourage people to get involved in the project, but it still seems weird. And I actually kind of agree with David Fetter. Aside from the scenario he mentioned (people who don't get paid stop volunteering, a phenomenon that has been documented to occur in other contexts), there's also the problem that people might sign up to get the money but then do a lousy job. People sometimes do a lousy job now too, but at least we can count on the fact that everyone who signs up to do it has some intrinsic motivation. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/0515-1st-levitt.html -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers