Re: Time to update list of contributors

On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:05, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 1:27p -0500 on 01 Dec 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > First off, I wasn't suggesting that we take people off the list of
> > contributors if they're not on "my" list. For one thing, I don't think
> > we should take people off until they haven't contributed in a few years
> > (the time should vary with the size of the original contribution, with
> > big contributors eventually going on the "former contributor" list).
> > Second, the list I made does not include drivers, GUIs, replication, and
> > other "essential add-ons" which we've conventionally included with the
> > list of contribs.
>
> If I might chime it, it sounds like you're saying "if code they've
> written is still around and in use, then they should be counted as
> contributors." May be that won't exactly work because of "active" and
> "inactive" contributors, but this information is basically an annotized
> diff is, isn't it?
>

We don't really label as active or inactive, but rather contributors and past
contributors, which in the past was diferentiatied as being an active
community member (or not). A good example is Chris Kings-Lynne. He did the
work for drop column, which is code that will likely be around forever, but
he started his own consulting business (http://kkl.com.au/) and no longer
focuses on PostgreSQL development (and does not particpate in the mailing
lists); so he is on the "past contributor" list.

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Robert Treat
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