Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 10:55:22 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
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	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 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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