Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 10:12:57PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> What confuses me are cases where Authors are not the committer and
> Co-authored-by are not the committer. This combination is not
> documented in the wiki, which makes me think people are using
> Co-authored-by in ways that are inconsistent or I don't understand.

I now realize I was treating non-committers listed as Co-authored-by the
same as committers being listed. Someone who is listed as
Co-authored-by made changes to the patch, perhaps adding bugs, but not
someone who should be listed as an author of the release note item.

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 am not sure PG 19 follows this, but we might want to follow it going
forward.

A larger issue is that since we now have links to the commits in the
release notes, there might no longer be a need to list _any_ names next
to the release note items.

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