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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: Jimmy Angelakos <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: PostgreSQL Contributors <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Contributor levels
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:42:11 -0400
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On 10/10/25 10:54 AM, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Jonathan S. Katz
>>  From what I've observed, many organizations have adopted "Distinguished" as
>> the next tier (e.g. "Distinguished Engineer"), and that may help with
>> understanding the progression from "Contributor" => "Major Contributor" =>
>> "Distinguished Contributor" as people would associate that "Distinguished"
>> sounds like someone has had a sustained level of significant contributions
>> for a long time.
> 
> I think this would make sense if we were starting from scratch, but
> now the community has had two (or more?) decades to remember that
> "major" means a lot. If we now "promoted" all existing contributors to
> "major" that would be very confusing.

That's a fair point. That said, I'd weigh it against the confusion of 
the one-time action of promoting major contributors to "distinguished" 
vs. the confusion of parsing the difference between "major" vs. 
"significant"/"notable" or similar adjectives, where it's more 
challenging to understand the difference.

Jonathan


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