Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 15 June 2008 23:01:16 Joshua D. Drake wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Plus an ability to filter the list on those criteria. I'd also like to see a space for companies to state which PostgreSQL major contributors are working for them. That should be of some assistance to sponsors in

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
David Fetter wrote: I forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature, per my TODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. This describes how to *develop* a feature, not how to *sponsor* it. I don't think this addresses the issues brought up

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: In reality though, what should happen is we should have a list of companies and consultants that are willing to be paid to implement features, todos and bug fixes. I think the professional support company listing is already that list. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: In reality though, what should happen is we should have a list of companies and consultants that are willing to be paid to implement features, todos and bug fixes. I think the professional support company listing is already

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Greg Smith wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: In reality though, what should happen is we should have a list of companies and consultants that are willing to be paid to implement features, todos and bug fixes. I think the professional support

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:24:28AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: David Fetter wrote: I forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature, per my TODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. This describes how to *develop* a feature, not

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: In reality though, what should happen is we should have a list of companies and consultants that are willing to be paid to implement features, todos and bug fixes. I think the professional support company listing is already that list.

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Plus an ability to filter the list on those criteria. I'd also like to see a space for companies to state which PostgreSQL major contributors are working for them. That should be of some assistance to sponsors in picking a development company to deal with. +1 Joshua

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-15 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote: David Fetter wrote: I forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature, per my TODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. This describes how to *develop* a feature, not how to *sponsor* it. I

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Michael Paesold
Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we want to help people to sponsor features, then I think we need to deal with subjects like finding someone to undertake the development, the sponsor's relationship with the developer, methods and times of payment, etc.

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we want to help people to sponsor features, then I think we need to deal with subjects like finding someone to undertake the development, the sponsor's relationship with the developer, methods and times of payment, etc.

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Decibel!
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we want to help people to sponsor features, then I think we need to deal with subjects like finding someone to undertake the development, the sponsor's relationship with the

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Decibel! wrote: So were there decisions in the dev meeting about how the community wants to handle people wanting to sponsor a project? Do they donate to SPI? Do we have an escrow fund? Do we just point them at one of the Postgres Companies and hope they're willing to pay for the whole

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Decibel! wrote: On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we want to help people to sponsor features, then I think we need to deal with subjects like finding someone to undertake the development, the sponsor's

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Incidentally, we have minutes from the meeting. Is it OK to publish them openly? There's a set of minutes already up at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2008_Developer_Meeting There was no solution proposed to the escrow problem, nor to

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:27 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Incidentally, we have minutes from the meeting. Is it OK to publish them openly? There's a set of minutes already up at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2008_Developer_Meeting

[HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-11 Thread David Fetter
Folks, I forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature, per my TODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. Sorry about that. Anyhow, Jignesh has come up with a proposal template http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProposalTemplate that could use

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: Folks, I forgot to post the fact that I'd put up a http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/How_to_sponsor_a_feature, per my TODO from the developers' meeting in Ottawa. Sorry about that. Anyhow, Jignesh has come up with a proposal template

Re: [HACKERS] How to Sponsor a Feature

2008-06-11 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote: If we want to help people to sponsor features, then I think we need to deal with subjects like finding someone to undertake the development, the sponsor's relationship with the developer, methods and times of payment, etc. The bit on the wiki is