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From: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
To: Corey Huinker <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Cornelia Biacsics <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jimmy Angelakos <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Contributors <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Contributor levels
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:11:44 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM Corey Huinker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I recall a few years ago there was a debate about one contributor being moved from Major Contributor to regular Contributor. Adding new levels will ultimately create more such debates, and we will need to be ready for that.

And I guess in some cases such contributors would rather be known as
"Former Major Contributor" :)

And let's also remind ourselves of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law - "When a measure
becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

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