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From: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
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Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 18:17:59 +0200
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> On 6 Apr 2026, at 18:09, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM Jacob Champion
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From a mechanical perspective, that has clear advantages to me
>> (especially with the de facto GitHub interpretation), but I think it'd
>> collide with our practice of rewriting commits to maintain project
>> voice. Maybe people could get used to that change, but I generally
>> expect the Author in the Git metadata to be the *literal* author of
>> the commit message.
> 
> Yes, I think that's right. I would have no problem us allowing pushing
> of commits under the actual author's name if the commit is pushed
> unchanged, but I rarely push anything unchanged and I think people
> would be very quickly become unhappy if I started doing so. In the
> rare cases where that would be warranted, the person usually just gets
> made a committer anyway.

Agreed.  And we'd have similar discussions around attribution since there is
only a single Author in Git.  What if two people did equal amount of work, whom
to place as Author?

> But really, that's a discussion for another time.

+INT_MAX

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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