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From: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 17:06:15 +0200
Message-ID: <CAEze2WgLEa_vHO9jJY+HRahToV9W2CfWwQUVoCObUQ46Y4_7Mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 at 16:50, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the PG 19 commits, I am seeing several commits with Author and
> Co-authored-by tags.  FYI, I think we agreed that only the Author names
> are mentioned as the authors in the release notes.

If it's not the "Co-authored-by" tag, how else would a project of a
non-committer cooperating with a committer be tagged?

Publicly, the guidance for commit tag usage seems to be [0]
>  "Co-authored-by:" is used by committers when they want to give
> full credit to the named individuals, but also indicate that they
> made significant changes.

Removing that committer's "full credit to the named individuals" seems
out of place to me.

Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent
Databricks (https://www.databricks.com)

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance

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