You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days. You wrote a PR. You spent an hour on a call telling us what’s broken about a tool you use every day. None of that is small, and none of it should go unnoticed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://percona.community/blog/2026/07/16/introducing-mountaineers/