Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 10:53:03 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	=?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>,
	Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>,
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Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
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On Mon, Apr  6, 2026 at 07:42:52AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Monday, April 6, 2026, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I think having "Co-authored-by:" mean one thing when "Author" appears
>     and a different thing when "Author" is missing is too confusing.
> 
> 
> The community hasn’t recognized intermediate contributions between authorship
> and reviewer.  Co-Author has always been available for technical reasons but
> doesn’t actually convey less status than Author even if some people intended it
> to be used that way.  I don’t think we should change that.  Stating it more
> clearly seems warranted.

Okay, I am fine with that, though it does not give committers any way to
indicate via tags that they changed the patch when they don't want to be
listed as author.  They can just state that in the commit text.

> Co-authored never means any thing different than “one of the authors”.  It’s
> committed-by whose meaning changes in the presence/absence of author.  I
> likewise don’t see changing that.  For future users of this information, having
> a silent boundary at which the meaning/usage of labels changes is very
> annoying.

Uh, is this what people want, because it is at least logical and a rule
that can be followed.

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