Re: On what we want to support: travel?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: On what we want to support: travel?
Date: 2006-11-09 07:31:34
Message-ID: 20061109073133.GJ90133@nasby.net
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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.
--
Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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