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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[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 12:41:34 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Tgmob_tz0+T1CcyTFwgQVThsoezY2fKib=r+ukAvVBXwM1gg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:38:41AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2026-04-05 16:09:57 +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On 2026-Apr-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > I just updated the wiki to handle this case because obviously
> > > > Co-authored-by is listing more than just committers:
> > > >
> > > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance#Tags%3A_%22%3A%22
> > > > Used to indicate the patch authors. "Co-authored-by:" should list
> > > > individuals who modified the patch but should not be listed as
> > > > authors in the release notes.
> >
> > I think that is a completely unwarranted change for which there is zero
> > concensus.
>
> +1. This whole discussion is crazy to me. Every Author and Co-Author
> should be listed in the release notes. If there is no author or
> co-author named in the commit message, then the committer should be
> listed as the sole author; otherwise, the exact list of authors and
> co-authors that the committer chose to include in the commit message
> should be credited. This wiki update should never have happened, and
> should be reverted immediately. I don't even understand why we're
> talking about this. You've invented a distinction between Author and
> Co-authored-by that not a single committer seems to have ever
> intended. It's just a way to indicate that some people did more work
> than others, not that the co-authors do not have an authorship
> interest. If they weren't supposed to be listed as authors, they would
> have been listed as Reviewed-by or not at all.
Uh, the original wiki text is from a discussion on
[email protected] with subject "determining
the primary author of a commit" that happened around November 2024 to
March 2025. Unfortunatly there is no public archive of that
discussion.
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