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
