Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

On 6 January 2016 at 20:36, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Almost all developers write code for job not for hobby.
>

As much as I'm trying not to get involved in this thread mainly due to my
lack of ability to foresee that a block of text will solve a bunch of
problems, I do just want to point out that before I joined 2ndQuadrant that
PostgreSQL for me was a hobby, and I did submit several patches which were
accepted and committed. I had no sort of financial interest at all in doing
this, I did it for free, with the only form of reward that I received was
that it made me happy when when my code was accepted. The only thing I
wanted out of this was to improve my skills, and I thought working with
PostgreSQL, due to it having very high coding standards was a good choice
for a way to do this. If there was something being proposed here which
would encourage more people to do as I did, then I think that would be a
bonus. Perhaps someone may mumble something in disagreement about that
though.

It's hard for me to imagine that I've been the only person to do this.

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