Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2026-Apr-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I am not sure PG 19 follows this, but we might want to follow it going
> > forward.
>
> More and more I am getting the feeling that the commit guidance is
> actually misguided. The document itself is not very good (I mean, why
> use XML-lookalike to represent a commit message, which is regular
> English prose??); and I don't feel it represents actual consensus.

I agree I am not a fan of the XML, but Joe Conway introduced it and I
didn't object.

> > 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.
>
> I don't understand your motivation for saying things like these.

Uh, I am asking if something is still useful due to recent changes and
can be removed as useless.

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