Re: who gets paid for this

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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.

It is. Note also that not all of core are committers.

/D