On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:17:07AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Hackers, > > I'd like to take a straw poll here on how we should acknowledge > reviewers. Please answer the below with your thoughts, either on-list > or via private email. > > How should reviewers get credited in the release notes? > > a) not at all > b) in a single block titled "Reviewers for this version" at the bottom. > c) on the patch they reviewed, for each patch
c) This keeps history better. > Should there be a criteria for a "creditable" review? > > a) no, all reviews are worthwhile > b) yes, they have to do more than "it compiles" > c) yes, only code reviews should count a). If it turns out that people are gaming this, or appear to be gaming this, we can revisit the policy. > Should reviewers for 9.4 get a "prize", such as a t-shirt, as a > promotion to increase the number of non-submitter reviewers? > > a) yes > b) no > c) yes, but submitters and committers should get it too b). You want to be *extremely* careful when paying volunteers. The chances of damaging their intrinsic motivations are high, especially when it's not stuff like covering their expenses. http://www.iew.uzh.ch/wp/iewwp007.pdf Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
