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

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > (If assigning blame and being point of contact is really the truth, why
> > > is there no email address?)
> >
> > I already had everyone's email address and it was inefficient to type it
> > on every item. I could easily look up their email addresses in my mail
> > program.
>
> If you want proof, we only started using full names, e.g. not "(Tom)",
> in 9.0. It didn't matter if users knew who Tom was --- we did. Look at
> the 6.1 release notes --- they are mostly only first names.
>
> Second, if you want to get rid of the names, we can still place them in
> SGML comments so developers can see who did a feature.

FYI, the general logic was that I used first and last names only if two
people had the same first name.

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