Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2026-04-05 16:09:57 +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2026-Apr-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I just updated the wiki to handle this case because obviously
> > > Co-authored-by is listing more than just committers:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance#Tags%3A_%22%3A%22
> > > Used to indicate the patch authors. "Co-authored-by:" should list
> > > individuals who modified the patch but should not be listed as
> > > authors in the release notes.
>
> I think that is a completely unwarranted change for which there is zero
> concensus.

+1. This whole discussion is crazy to me. Every Author and Co-Author
should be listed in the release notes. If there is no author or
co-author named in the commit message, then the committer should be
listed as the sole author; otherwise, the exact list of authors and
co-authors that the committer chose to include in the commit message
should be credited. This wiki update should never have happened, and
should be reverted immediately. I don't even understand why we're
talking about this. You've invented a distinction between Author and
Co-authored-by that not a single committer seems to have ever
intended. It's just a way to indicate that some people did more work
than others, not that the co-authors do not have an authorship
interest. If they weren't supposed to be listed as authors, they would
have been listed as Reviewed-by or not at all.

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