Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
Date: 2026-04-06 15:55:19
Message-ID: CAOYmi+=R61z_v_RC0BvVtTEA3FafdCg90anCG4FS4B2Aw8Zk6A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
> Crazy idea: One option for what we could do going forward is use the
> Author header field of the commit for the actual author, instead of
> having that field always contain the same as the Committer header field.

From a mechanical perspective, that has clear advantages to me
(especially with the de facto GitHub interpretation), but I think it'd
collide with our practice of rewriting commits to maintain project
voice. Maybe people could get used to that change, but I generally
expect the Author in the Git metadata to be the *literal* author of
the commit message.

--Jacob

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