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Recognized Contributors

The PostgreSQL Contributor Profiles 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. For a list of all code contributions to a specific release, see the Release Notes for released versions of PostgreSQL.

Financial contributions get listed on the Sponsors pages, not here.

Contributors levels

Current Contributors

The Contributor Profiles page lists Core Team members and two levels of PostgreSQL Contributors:

  • Core Team people on the PostgreSQL Core Team
  • Major Contributors individuals that have provided a sustained stream of contributions, having substantial positive impact on the development of the PostgreSQL Community, over many years.
  • Contributors individuals that have provided a sustained stream of notable contributions in recent years.

Past Contributors

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.

  • Past Major Contributors: previous Major Contributors and previous Core Team members
  • Past Contributors: previous Contributors

Types of Contributions

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

If there is a type of contribution that you feel should be listed here or expanded upon, email [email protected].

Contributors Committee Governance

The governance of the Contributors Committee is described on the Contributors Committee page.

Nominating New Recognized Contributors

If there is a PostgreSQL contributor who you think is making sustained contributions of the type described here, email a description of their contributions to [email protected].