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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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 12:39:05 -0400
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Hi,

On 2026-04-06 12:27:52 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr  6, 2026 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > Using Author in the header instead of the footer has the benefit of
> > actually being recognized by other tools like GitHub, just like
> > Co-authored-by is recognized in the footer. Right now, on GitHub a
> > non-committer author only shows up if they are listed as Co-authored-by,
> 
> Yes, I remember that benefit of Co-authored-by.

That fundamentally conflicts with your re-interpretation of it, doesn't it? It
being recognized by github is an argument for using it as the primary tool of
non-committer attribution, whereas you want to use it to list people that
should not be credited with the change.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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