Re: who is pgsql in cvs

Christian Bird <cabird(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity
> with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres
> as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs
> committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they
> used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a
> tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an
> account used for some special purpose?

That's Marc Fournier in his capacity as packager. He also commits
as scrappy --- not sure if he has any hard-and-fast rule about which
account to use for what, but most of the time pgsql commits are just
for activities associated with tagging releases.

regards, tom lane