Re: PostgreSQL Contributor levels

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> wrote:
>
> To be honest, I don't think we "need" any of this, but there are some
> benefits that we might achieve by doing it

I think it is easy if you are already recognized as a sustained
contributor to say we don't need to recognize people who have made
fewer or only recent contributions. I don't have a strong feeling
about whether or not we should use "distinguished" instead of "major",
but I do know that waiting 2-3 years to be recognized for contributing
to the community is discouraging for people. And, as for code
contributions, when people say who contributed to Postgres code, they
don't think, hey let me go look at the release notes for all the
previous major versions one at a time and find the acknowledgements
section.

> (though I'd also say I'd
> love to see a prototype list of what this new 3rd tier would look
> like... it seems massive)

Well the third tier would be listed last, so if you don't scroll
forever, you won't see it. We could also make it a separate linked
page, we haven't looked into how options would look yet.

- Melanie