Re: Suggestion, add committfest managers to the contributors page

Greetings,

* Jonathan S. Katz (jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org) wrote:
> On 3/26/22 7:41 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> >>On 27 Mar 2022, at 00:35, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >>$subject basically. They volunteer to take on a management role that doesn't tend to be popular and the added recognition seems warranted. I would suggest listing them only until we publish the release they were a manager for and then we memorialize their role in the major version as part of its history and start the listing anew. That limits the size to around 6.
> >
> >While I'm not on the contributor committee, I do think this idea has merits.
> >Personally I would expand scope to also list the RMT for similar reasons.
>
> I think there are a few things here.
>
> For specifically being listed on the contributors page, that would be a
> discussion for the contributor committee, as Daniel says
> (contributors(at)postgresql(dot)org).

Yes, that would be the place to bring it up. As a member of that
committee, but only my personal thoughts on it in particular, I worry
that a simple "if you get to be a CFM one time then you get listed as a
contributor" rule would encourage folks who aren't really qualified to
try to be CFM. The contributors committee does look at a lot of
different sources, including things like posts to various mailing lists,
involvement in committees, being mentioned as a patch author or
reviewer, etc. I doubt that an individual qualified to be a CFM and who
fills that role for a particular CF would end up excluded from the list
if they're otherwise active in the project.

Specific individuals who folks want to nominate or have us look at can
certainly be sent to contributors@ for us to consider, of course, by
anyone at any time. We've had a few of late and we've been discusing
(today, in fact) both those and pulling together a set of updates to
make once we get past feature freeze.

All that said, I'll look at adding a check to see if an individual was a
CFM or member of RMT each CF/release to our data set, so that we can see
that easily and include it in our consideration of who should be listed.

Thanks!

Stephen