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Postgres Core team is at a potential pivot point in its history.. this might be a good time to expand core, maybe from 5 to 9? It would preserve the 50% rule, preserve the institutional history of the current team members, and add some diversity and new talent into the group..

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Oct 20, 2020

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I agree this would be a good thing. Yet I believe Core deserves a much deeper rethinking. Like: - adhering to the same rules Core states for others (like members to be elected, not life-time members) - turn it into a legal person - prevent multiple positions for the same person

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Elected by whom, exactly? We can either make it completely inclusive (i.e. literally anybody can show up and vote), or we can exclude some number of people based on some quasi-arbitrary criteria. This creates a huge burden for people that aren't you.

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An open source project should not be run like a nation state or large NGO

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I didn't say that. Yet we can look at other (very) successful open source communities that are run democratically, like the

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. Maybe that could be an example to look into.

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There are PgUS association and PostgreSQL Europe, but probably in total they are not inclusive enough.

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Not to mention that they leave entire continents unrepresented..

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There are many options (e.g.: open elections, among contributors, among "members" --which is exactly what Core demands of any Postgres NPO--). The only wrong answer, in my opinion, is indefinite term, non elected. That has a name in politics that mostly nobody likes, for reason.

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It's very hard to take you seriously because you're not acknowledging any downside to what you propose, nor any upside to the status quo. The status quo certainly has its problems, but this isn't helping.

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