Re: who gets paid for this

Dave Page wrote:
> 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.

And many committers are not core.

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