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Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 18:17:59 +0200
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> On 6 Apr 2026, at 18:09, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:55=E2=80=AFAM Jacob Champion
> <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> =46rom 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.
>=20
> 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

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Daniel Gustafsson