| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-rrreviewers(at)postgresql(dot)org, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Seeking Mentors for Funded Reviewers |
| Date: | 2011-01-26 11:15:57 |
| Message-ID: | 1296040557.24767.931.camel@ebony |
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On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:15 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > However, having a mentee begin work early in the 9.2 commit-fest cycle
> > might be advantageous. I imagine that there is less pressure to review
> > all of the patches in the early commit-fests. Perhaps this will give
> > prospective mentors the ablility to spend more time with mentee's.
>
> For 9.1, what about doing a bug-finding bounty when we get into the 9.1
> beta cycle? Mozilla has been using bug bounties and they've been
> surprisingly successful.
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.
--
Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/
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