The PostgreSQL Contributor Page includes people who have made substantial, long-term contributions of time and effort to the PostgreSQL project. One-time-only or short-term contributions are not usually considered adequate for listing, unless they involve quite large amounts of code and time. Financial contributions get listed on the Sponsors page, not here.
This section lists Core Team members and two levels of PostgreSQL Contributor:
Core Team - people on the PostgreSQL Core Team
Major Contributor - individuals that have provided a sustained stream of contributions, having substantial positive impact on the development of the PostgreSQL Community, over many years.
Contributor - individuals that have provided a sustained stream of notable contributions in recent years.
This section lists people who were in the Core Team, Major Contributor, or Contributor section, but have stopped contributing for an extended period of time.
Hackers Emeritus
Major Contributor Emeritus
Contributor Emeritus
Contributions to the PostgreSQL Project that may be considered by the committee include, but are not limited to:
Code: Author, review, test, and/or commit patches that are pushed to the primary PostgreSQL git repository, and/or to closely related external projects such as PostGIS, pgjdbc, PGAdmin
Translation: user facing messages in source code, documentation
Community mailing list participation: report bugs, suggest features, contribute to ongoing discussions, answer questions, list moderation
Governance of the PostgreSQL project or community recognized NPOs: Core Team, NPO Board of Directors, NPO Officers, NPO Committees
Maintenance and operation of community controlled infrastructure: Sysadmin Team, Web Team
Other Community recognized committee participation: Security, Code of Conduct
Management of the development process and software lifecycle: Commitfest managers, Release Management Team, Release Team, Packagers, Buildfarm animal maintenance
Organization and execution of community recognized conferences: Organizing committee, Selection Committee, Speakers, Volunteers
Open Education: PostgreSQL related Blogs, articles, uncompensated training/tutorials
Open Support (in addition to community mailing lists): #postgresql IRC channel, Postgres slack channel, Stack Overflow
All Contributor recognition is at the discretion of the Contributor Committee, who will decide on the status of each Contributor, or potential Contributor, on an individual basis. In exceptional circumstances, an individual may be recognised at a Contributor level for outstanding contributions over periods of time lower than the above stated durations.
The decision of the committee is final unless overridden by the Core Team. The Contributor Committee strives to meet every second week to discuss the current pool of candidates. The Contributor Page is updated promptly after any decisions are made with respect to additions or changes.
Using the guidelines above, Contributor status is ultimately determined by the Contributor Committee. The current members are:
Christoph Berg
Joe Conway
Melanie Plageman
The current method of choosing who qualifies as a Contributor is via simple majority vote of those on the committee. The size and membership of the Committee is self determined, but ratified by a simple majority vote of the Core Team. Generally the goal is that there be a minimum of three people, with no single company employing a majority of the committee membership.