Re: Credits For v19

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 7:05 AM Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > The obvious gaps created by that sort of a system is that it doesn't
> immediately recognize first-time contributors, and it doesn't recognize the
> first time a typo happens, etc.
>
> Thank you for working on this!
>
> I checked the unverified_names list, focusing on Japanese names.
>
> Daisuke Higuchi
> Masashi Kamura
> Shinya Sugamoto
> Tatsuya Kawata
>
> I think these are in the given-name-first order.
>

I'm going to use an abundance of caution here and ask whether
"given-name-first" order is the correct order we should be using for them
in the credits. As much as I might think I might know the correct answer, I
want to be sure.

> Igi Izumi
> SATŌ Kentarō
> Yamaguchi Atsuo
>
> I don't think these are in the order.
>
> Also:
>
> torikoshia
>
> I think he is Atsushi Torikoshi. I think he is using this in his email
> address.
>
> Haruna Miwa
>
> I think this is a Japanese name, but I don't know which is the given
> name and which is the surname.
>

Thanks for these updates.

This is a good time to update people on general progress.

I've been reaching out to contributors who have no name associated with
their email address, as well as ones that have names that seem incomplete
(just initials, one word all lowercase, etc). The response rate is
generally good, and that has cascading positive effects.

Some interesting quirks I have discovered this time around:

- Presently we have no way to easily distinguish names of buildfarm animals
from names of real people, (e.g. Jay).
- The name-finder can't tell the difference between a name in a book
citation and an offhand reference to a helpful contributor.

When the responses to my emails have died down, and I've given the list a
once-over for obvious fixes (extra words on names, obvious nicknames of
people already credited in the same commit, etc) I'll publish a preliminary
list.

One question I do have for the group is the best way for me to share the a
large file that would be the the commit log for v19 with the
already-selected names redacted from it. The purpose of this would be to
crowdsource the scouring of the text for names that got missed. However,
even gzipped versions of this file have been over 1MB, and that doesn't
seem appropriate for the mailing list, so I'm open to suggestions for how
best to distribute that to interested worker bees.