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To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
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Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 19:34:13 -0400
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 06:16:10PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On April 4, 2026 5:56:01 PM EDT, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On 04.04.26 17:06, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> >Two Author tags.
>
> That's not how I understood its use so far, and I'm surely not alone in that. We could rephrase this in the wiki page, but we can't go back and edit the commit messages...
The wiki page says:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance
Author:
Co-authored-by:
Used to indicate the patch authors. "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.
but I am seeing many cases where there is an Author tag, who is not the
committer, and also Co-authored-by tags in the same message. That does
not follow the wiki text.
I need to know what to do for PG 19, and what to do for later major
releases. I think Peter's point is why are people using Author and
Co-authored-by in the same commits, and not just two Authors.
I thought we had this resolved but looking at the PG 19 commits,
obviously not.
To clarify, I assume Co-authored-by would appear in the Acknowledgments
section at the bottom of the major release notes, e.g.:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-18.html#RELEASE-18-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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