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From: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[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 16:54:33 +0200
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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.

Christoph

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