Re: someone else to do the list of acknowledgments

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM Aleksander Alekseev <
aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > With that, I think the only change since the last drop is the removal of
> Hacking Discord, which my scanner read as a name alias/qualifier like Jane
> Doe (BIg Megacorp), so I think we're done.
>
> FWIW the following entries look the same to me:
>
> + <member>Andrew</member>
> + <member>Felix</member>
> + <member>Nikita</member>
>
> It's like "John". These entries don't seem to reference any particular
> person.
>

They are. I checked thread history, and we chased all three names down the
rabbit hole, and found no last name. Email addresses matter in other
situations, but not release credits. I trust the committers to handle them
as they see fit.

I think that the policies for how to handle names in this list are evolving
as the community grows, and I have a few ideas for how to make this process
smoother next time around, with some procedures for asking the contributors
themselves how they want to be attributed well in advance of the release
date.