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 repository.
It is done on a meritocracy basis and has zero bearing if the person is paid to work on PostgreSQL or not. I believe (would need verification) that it is -core who decides who gets actual commit privileges. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org