On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:49 AM, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to be Mentor for Funded Reviewers. My mission will be:
> 1) We are empowered to create a better world together.
> 2) Together we co-create our existence.
> 3) Together we make Postgresql project a success.
> I am lookin
.
I will require to get training in technical, functional and culture of
postgresql.
Pl let me know, if you decide positively.
Regards,
Vijay.
- Original Message -
From: "Joshua D. Drake"
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:00 am
Subject: Re: [RRR] [HACKERS] Seeking Mentors
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:39 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Richard Broersma
> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure what you mean by this.
> >
> > Now that I read it, I not sure what I meant either. :) How about this: the
> > selection, management, and oversight of grants and men
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Richard Broersma
wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by this.
>
> Now that I read it, I not sure what I meant either. :) How about this: the
> selection, management, and oversight of grants and mentees should be opaque
> to the community so as to prevent distract
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think that's it exactly. Basically, if you fund reviewers,
> and we get lots more people doing reviews and they're all great, I'll
> be happy. If you fund reviewers, and we get lots more people doing
> reviews and they're all terrib
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Richard Broersma
wrote:
> So I take it that the concern is not how reviews are funded, but over the
> perceived connection between the organic community and third party
> organizations. This makes sense.
I don't think that's it exactly. Basically, if you fund r
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:29:23PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:15 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Broersma
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Simon Riggs
> > > wrote:
> > >> You're paying the reviewers; are you pa
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> It's just that
> I require both income and sleep. That's probably not an issue for
> people who are just getting started in the community.
>
> Another question is whether you really need assigned mentors at all.
...
>
Very few emails on -ha
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Not somewhat, completely. Most of the "teachers" we have are already
> getting paid to work on PostgreSQL. There are some exceptions of course
> but if you look at the list of people that are qualified to actually
> review code, they are ge
Just a small comment: If someone offered me $15 to mentor a reviewer, I
would tell him to kindly go away. If the same person were to offer me a
$15 t-shirt saying I mentored the review (or whatever), I would consider
it.
Yes, I know I could buy the t-shirt with the money. People are strange
tha
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:15 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Broersma
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >> You're paying the reviewers; are you paying the mentors?
> >
> > The answer to this question is that we can fund mentor (
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> 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 stil
"David E. Wheeler" 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:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard Broersma
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Simon Riggs 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 signifi
On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM, David E. Wheeler
> wrote:
>> Part of GCOC's success has been in allowing a class of people to
>> participate who otherwise would have had to get summer jobs flipping
>> burgers.
>>>
>>
>
> This is esse
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Part of GCOC's success has been in allowing a class of people to
> participate who otherwise would have had to get summer jobs flipping
> burgers.
>
This is essentially the idea for this grant, to fund a person in learning a
new skill.
On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:38 AM, David Fetter wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking that we should consider *very* carefully before we
>> introduce payments into what had been an all-volunteer effort. You
>> may get people to do things they might not o
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Many people are contributing patches for free. Will those people get
> paid to fix their own bugs? I guess they might well be better at finding
> and fixing them than others, so it is an interesting question.
I remember hearing about a case wh
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:14 +, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Richard Broersma
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> >>
> >> Will the scheme be open to everyone, or just .USians?
> >
> > I do believe that such grants are limited to members of P
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Richard Broersma
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> Will the scheme be open to everyone, or just .USians?
>
> I do believe that such grants are limited to members of PgUS. Although, I
> should mention that there's no restriction for
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
> Will the scheme be open to everyone, or just .USians?
I do believe that such grants are limited to members of PgUS. Although, I
should mention that there's no restriction for residents of any country
becoming a member of PgUS.
> If the
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Richard Broersma
wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> On 1/24/11 12:17 PM, Richard Broersma wrote:
>> > PgUS is preparing to fund a grant for PgUS members to learn and
>> > participate in the patch review process. We looking for
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