Re: PostgreSQL Contributor levels

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.