On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 12:43, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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.
