Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this
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 http://gsyc.info/~jjamor/research/papers/2006-gsd-herraiz-robles-amor-romera-barahona.pdf). We're trying to get an idea if there are perhaps two different phenomena in our data. We're trying to separate those who have commit privileges into those employed by a company to help out as part of their job and those who do so in their free time at the time of their first commit. I really appreciate any help that you can provide. If it appears that I'm making incorrect assumptions about how the community works, please feel free to correct me or point me to resources. Thanks. -- Chris On 3/8/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 project. And I think you're making the (incorrect) assumption that granting commit rights works the same way in all projects. It does not. Even more to the point, getting paid for has almost nothing to do with has commit privileges. At least on this project. regards, tom lane -- Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
[HACKERS] who gets paid for this
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 find out who is being employed to work on postgres and who is doing it on their own time? Some of my data points to there being two ways that people make the jump. 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. Thanks a lot. -- Christian Bird -- Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
Re: [HACKERS] who gets paid for this
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 to find out who is being employed to work on apache and who is doing it on their own time? Some of my data points to there being two ways that people make the jump. More specifically, could those who worked on postgres as some aspect of their job prior to getting cvs access let me know? Or if there are devs who know this information about others, I'd be really appreciative to get it. Thanks a lot. -- Christian Bird -- Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
[HACKERS] who is pgsql in cvs
Hello, I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an account used for some special purpose? It looks to have a number of commits over the life of the repository. If anyone could help me out by letting me know who pgsql is or if it isn't a person and fulfills some role, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch! -- Chris -- Christian Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Dept. UC Davis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
