"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: > I think M. Fetter is completely wrong. If people are rethinking > whether they should volunteer based on whether other people are being > funded for their time to review patches, we don't want such people > around anyway. Let them leave.
I can see his concern though: we have to be very careful to avoid establishing perverse incentives. The larger picture is that quite a few people are paid to work on Postgres already --- me, for instance. That doesn't seem to have discouraged other people from working on it on their own time. But I'm not paid according to how many bugs I find, and wouldn't want to be. I don't have a problem with funding people to work on Postgres. We just have to be careful that the grants aren't set up in a way that might encourage people to game the system. I'm also not sure that "review a patch" is a well-chosen specific goal to have here, especially not for people who've not been around the project at all. It's hard enough for people who *do* have a lot of context to do useful reviews. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers