Re: Credits For v19

Hi Corey,

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> I've been working offline on a system for generating the credits for a
> given postgres release, which derives most of its notion of what a name is
> based on what passed for real names in previous year's release credits and
> the name/email combinations that people use when sending to the hackers
> list. When names without emails or emails without names are found, it
> checks to see if that name/email was used with a proper pairing elsewhere.
> From there I can build up correction lists to cover typos and misspellings.
>
> 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.
>
> To that end, I've compiles three lists:
>
> 1. names that don't yet have a known "preferred name". 9 times out of 10
> the name is fine, but I'd like to have the community take a pass at
> correcting name spellings, proper name order, etc. There are 7 of these.
>
> 2. email addresses with no name associated. The program goes through the
> pg-hackers mbox files from 2024 up through last month - so the email being
> in this list is probably a sign that either the email address was
> erroneous, or the sender does not want their name associated. There are 288
> of these, but I assume a lot of them are duplicates.
>
> 3. Names in preferred_name+variant_name where evidence exists that the
> preferred name is the spelling preferred by that person, with additional
> rows pairing the preferred names with known variations/typos/etc. There are
> 320 of these, but some may be duplicates.
>
> If you did work on v19, your name or email should be in one of those.
> Check it out, post corrections and I'll coalesce them. Also, if you
> expected to see your name (or somebody else's) but don't, reply with the
> commit hash(es) that you feel are in error.
>

For the below 3, you can just keep Satya Narlapuram

Satyanarayana Narlapuram SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM
Satyanarayana Narlapuram Satya Narlapuram
Satyanarayana Narlapuram Satyanarayana Narlapuram

Thanks,
Satya