Re: someone else to do the list of acknowledgments

> On 18 Sep 2025, at 14:25, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 18.09.25 10:14, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 18 Sep 2025, at 07:02, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> These have been updated. I'm holding off on releasing the update files pending Daniel sending me a list of known preferred names. I'll release another file after I've integrated that list into my process.
>> Thanks for working on this!
>
> Now is anyone planning to commit this? I can do it if no one else is lined up.

I was thinking we should wait for more timezones to have a chance to dig into
the list before committing. If you want to pick it up since you have a long
history of doing the list, feel free, else I can take care of it.

>> Previous years notes do not include names where we only know the email address,
>> not sure what our policy on that is. Personally I think they should be
>> included, they are credited in the commitlog so they clearly belong in the
>> acknowledgments.
>
> The policy was that we only included persons whose name we know. The reason being, if they don't want to be known, then they also don't need to be listed in the credits.

My take would be that if they don't want to be known, they wouldn't have
contacted us in the first place. However, if we have a policy in place then
sticking to it makes us consistent and consistency is good.

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Daniel Gustafsson