Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes
Date: 2011-06-17 04:58:37
Message-ID: 1308286717.14586.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tor, 2011-06-16 at 18:24 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I wonder if the submitter names should not be in the release notes at
> all. Do other projects put names in there?

In the release notes, I'd say usually not. The names are usually
recorded in a changelog, but nowadays that is often generated from the
source control system.

If I were to look for "blame" in the PostgreSQL source, I'd go to Git.
I wouldn't object to removing the names in the release notes.

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