Re: list of credits for release notes

> On 27 Sep 2017, at 19:47, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> At the PGCon Developer Meeting it was agreed[0] to add a list of credits
> to the release notes, including everyone who was mentioned in a commit
> message. I have now completed that list.

Wow, it’s bigger than I expected. Thanks for compiling it.

>
> Attached is the proposed documentation commit as well as the raw list.

At the very least my name is missing (I contributed the monitoring roles patch and pg_ls_log/waldir. I have no idea if others are.

>
> Thoughts on the heading? I have considered "Credits",
> "Acknowledgements", "Thanks", but the first seemed better than the other
> ones

I prefer Acknowledgments.

>
> This was a manual process, so mistakes could have been made. I have
> gently edited variant spellings and obvious typos.
>
>
> For the following mentions I could not identify a name:
>
> mthrockmorton(at)hme(dot)com
> Tels
> Zertrin <postgres_wiki(at)zertrin(dot)org>
> zam6ak(at)gmail(dot)com
> bug #14654 reported by James C.
> Jov in bug #14749
> yxq <yxq(at)o2(dot)pl>
>
> I respect that some people don't want their name on record, but then
> they don't go into the release credits either, I think.
>
> The considered commits have been
>
> git log REL9_6_STABLE..REL_10_STABLE
>
> currently up to 9ebc7781444fd15d56ed16e5312a954483e85cd9.
>
> I have also cross-checked the list against all PG10 commit fests, the
> committers list, and the contributors list on the web site. (That
> doesn't mean I added all those, but checked for obvious omissions
> against those.)
>
> The list is sorted using COLLATE "en-x-icu".
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> [0]:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2017_Developer_Meeting#Release_notes_scope.2C_and_giving_credit
>
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> <0001-Add-list-of-credits-to-release-notes.patch>
> <credits.txt>
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