[ukutaht]

We decided to create a donation fund to support open-source projects that we depend on last year[1]. We rely heavily on PostgreSQL and so just today I was trying to find the best way to contribute to the development of Postgres.

I didn't find much beyond sponsoring official community events[2]. The impression I got was that there are no paid core developers for PostgreSQL, is that correct? If so, what's the best way to support the project financially?

1. https://plausible.io/giving-back 2. https://www.postgresql.org/about/donate/

[anarazel]

> The impression I got was that there are no paid core developers for PostgreSQL, is that correct?

There are (I and several of my colleagues, for example) - but they're paid by employers having us work on postgres, rather than a foundation or such.

> If so, what's the best way to support the project financially?

There unfortunately - personal opinion, not as a core team member - is no good way to fund a "partial" developer for postgres right now.

On a smaller scale than employing a dedicated postgres developer, regularly testing the in-development release (and reporting bugs!), doing ad-hoc testing, patch review etc are a bit easier to start with.

[zozbot234]

Did you check the sponsorship page? https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/sponsorship/ For that matter, does the donation page really state that donations are only used for community events? That's not what I see there.

[pabs3]

The best way to give back to open source in general is probably to donate the time of your developers.

Funding isn't used for development in a lot of projects, that is changing somewhat though as people try to monetise open source.