Re: Proposal for change in approach in developer listings

On Saturday 18 December 2004 19:37, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> looking at the out-of-date info on the developer listings, I'm thinking
> that the sentence-long descriptions we have for each developer are a bit
> too long for us to really maintain them. I think we should do this:
>
> 1) Divide the listings into 4 sections:
> Core, Emeritus, Major Contributors, Contributors
> 2) List only people's names, countries, and (optionally, if the developer
> wants it) employers.
>
> 2 might be amended to include single-word descriptions of their
> contributions. Example:
> Joe Conway, USA, Symer Inc., arrays, PL/pgSQL, PL/R.
>
> With the one-word descriptions or not, it should get a *lot* easier to
> maintain the list. In fact, it seems to me that it ought to be
> databased ...
>
> Also, I'm opposed to listing, say "Web","Advocacy", and "Related Projects"
> or whatever contributors seperately. That once again leads to the
> implication that some kinds of contributions are more valuable than others,
> and a lot of the "less valuable" contributions nevertheless keep us
> running.
>
> Thoughts? Aside from the fact that we need some rules on who's a "major
> contributor" anyway?

I'm not sure why people have changed the format/content from what we have on
developer.postgresql.org; that seems a little in poor taste since it has
generally been informal recognition of contributors from the developers
point-of-view. That always seemed to have worked, or at least I don't recall
hearing any complaints.

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Robert Treat
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