Re: On what we want to support: travel? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: On what we want to support: travel?
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Msg-id 20061109073133.GJ90133@nasby.net
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In response to Re: On what we want to support: travel?  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:53:16AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:27:13PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> > > It surprised me to notice that there appears to be no interest in
> > > funding developers.
> >
> > The trouble with that is that it's a much "lumpier" thing to try to
> > arrange.
> > ...
>
> How about a bounty system, where you describe work to be done and give a
> fixed price or the implementation and people can apply for this job?

Maybe my glasses are especially rose-colored, but I think there's
plenty-enough core developers that are employed by commercial PostgreSQL
companies so that anyone who wants to fund development of a specific
feature can do so.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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