The Performance Points Committee is a panel of well-versed players and developers who facilitate and approve updates to the performance points and star rating algorithms. Their goal is to help osu! developers push changes faster and with more community coordination.
The Performance Points Committee's responsibilities include:
When a new difficulty calculation change is proposed on GitHub, the Performance Points Committee members responsible for the relevant game mode are requested to review it. Those committee members then review and test the proposal and write feedback on its GitHub page. If the committee ultimately approves of the changes, the proposal will be passed on to osu! developers for final code inspection before it is merged into the game.
The osu! developers prepare merged proposals to be deployed in batches. A deployment recalculates star ratings for all beatmaps and performance points for all scores and users. The Performance Points Committee helps write the news post that accompanies each deployment.
The Performance Points Committee mainly operates in the Performance Points Discord server, with some game modes also having separate servers. The committee also maintains a Twitter account used for official announcements and difficulty calculation related news.
Members of the committee are hand-picked by osu! developers and/or other committee members and consist of people with a lot of experience working on the difficulty calculation system.
The osu! panel was first announced to the public through the November 2021 Performance Points & Star Rating Updates news post in response to a community survey held earlier that year.
| osu! profile | GitHub profile | Join date |
|---|---|---|
| moonpoint | apollo-dw | 9 November 2021 |
| StanR | stanriders | 9 November 2021 |
| tsunyoku | tsunyoku | 12 April 2024 |
| osu! profile | Join date | Leave date |
|---|---|---|
| MBmasher | 9 November 2021 | 12 April 2024 |
| emu1337 | 9 November 2021 | 12 April 2024 |
The osu!taiko panel was formed on 1 May 2022 in response to a community survey regarding performance points and star rating in osu!taiko and osu!mania held earlier that year, as well as major changes to the star rating algorithm.
| osu! profile | GitHub profile | Join date |
|---|---|---|
| -Lawtron- | Lawtrohux | 1 May 2022 |
| Horiiizon | Horiiizons | 1 May 2022 |
| mangomizer | mangomizer | 1 May 2022 |
| Natelytle | Natelytle | 25 July 2023 |
| ph1 | sw1tchbl4d3r | 17 September 2023 |
| osu! profile | Join date | Leave date |
|---|---|---|
| vun | 1 May 2022 | 17 September 2023 |
The osu!catch panel was formed on 14 October 2023.
| osu! profile | GitHub profile | Join date |
|---|---|---|
| bastoo0 | bastoo0 | 14 October 2023 |
| Secre | SecreOsu | 14 October 2023 |
| Sorceress | Sorceress-osu | 14 October 2023 |
| Zoggoth | Zoggoth | 14 October 2023 |
| Zyoulou | Flawnpiece | 14 October 2023 |
The osu!mania panel was formed 22 April 2022 in response to a community survey regarding performance points and star rating in osu!taiko and osu!mania held earlier that year, as well as in anticipation of a surge in active development effort, starting with a change in difficulty calculation for hold note releases in osu!mania.