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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: John Naylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[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 10:55:22 -0400
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On Mon, Apr  6, 2026 at 09:47:32PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > I think having "Co-authored-by:" mean one thing when "Author" appears
> > and a different thing when "Author" is missing is too confusing.
> 
> My take is that the co-author tag has backfired and made things less
> clear. If we are using it inconsistently, then it doesn't convey any
> useful information. I'd actually rather just use "Author" exclusively
> and if there is some further detail that needs to be conveyed, it can
> be in the message body.

The original intent as I understood it was for "Co-authored-by:" to be
lesser authors, typically the committer, but as you said, we haven't
done that consistently in the past.  Do we want to do it consistently
going forward or just not use "Co-authored-by:"?

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