Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > I don't have a problem with that, but I think core code committers
> > > and www maintainers should be identified separately.
> > 
> > Why? Then we have to also separate advocacy which is just as important
> > and pgfoundry... as well as possibly a host of others. We all have our
> > job in the community :). 
> > 
> > > On a closely
> > > related note: last time I looked there was no way for anyone to
> > > discover on the web site who the committers actually are. That would
> > > also probably be useful.
> > 
> > See Dave's response about core not wanting committers that easily
> > identified. I actually recall this argument, basically there are times
> > when commit access might be revoked temporarily etc... IIRC..
> 
> I believe the reason we don't publicize who is a committer is that we
> have non-committers who do a lot more for the project.  Commit rights
> are usually given to people who do a lot of patches (perhaps small ones)
> while people who develop larger patches are less likely to get commit
> rights rapidly.

Of course the next question is why core is split out, especially since
core's role is mostly for confidential company contacts and discipline.

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