Re: PostgreSQL Contributor levels

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 12:43, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 02:06:22PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 15.08.25 19:30, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > You are a "Contributor" when you appear on this list.
> > >
> > > But we also have long lists of "individuals [who] have contributed" in
> > > the release notes:
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.html#RELEASE-17-
> > > ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> > >
> > > You are a contributor when you contributed to the release.
> > >
> > > Clearly, there are more ways to contribute, and the term "Contributor"
> > > on the curated list should probably be more specific.
> >
> > The threshold for getting into the release notes is absolutely minimal,
> and
> > I think it would devalue the curation work that you are doing by somehow
> > combining the two data sets or making a third level based on the release
> > notes or something like that.
> >
> > Personally, I think it's all fine as it is. Maybe an additional
> adjective
> > in front of "Contributor", but it's not a big deal IMO.
>
> Just a reminder that we have gotten regular complaints that we focused
> too much on code contributions vs. non-code, docs, events, blogs, CoC,
> etc activity in the contributor criteria.
>

+1 The ecosystem is much larger than the code in the server alone.

Dave