Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 12:37:39PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Any changes to the wiki are going forward. While receiving emotional
> > replies, I have not received answers to my specific questions.
> Expecting detailed responses while other folks are working on getting stuff
> committed before the feature freeze also seems like a bit much. And again,
> that seems unrelated to the complain here that you're unilaterally making
> decisions.

Uh, I am also working on getting the PG 19 release note ready, so I at
least needed to know what the PG 19 rules should be. I could not wait
for after the feature freeze date.

> > What is the answer, both for PG 19, and going forward? I need an
> > answer because I need rules to follow.
>
> I think the answer is for you to roll back your changes, assume co-authorship
> means co-authorship, and then, if you think we need another tag, start a
> discussion about how what tag to use for "blame-but-no-credit-goes-to" going
> forward. I would strongly recommend starting that discussion only once we're
> well into the betas for 19, because it's just going to sow confusion if we
> consider doing anything like this while still doing 19 stuff.

Uh, just to clarify, these are changes made on January 8, 2025, and were
discussed on pgsql-private-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, that need to
be changed:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Commit_Message_Guidance&diff=40351&oldid=40350

I have updated the text to now be:

Used to indicate the patch authors. If no "Author" or
"Co-authored-by" is listed, the committer is assumed to be
the author.

> > I don't have a strong opinion but I do think we need a syntax for
> > committers to indicate they modified a patch, might have introduced
> > bugs, but don't want release note author credit, since I think several
> > people have found that useful. Is that inaccurate?
>
> I for one don't believe that's needed. Committers always are to co-blame for
> stuff they commit, so when do you need to express blame-but-no-credit-goes-to?

True. I don't really care what the rules are. I was only emailing to
say what I thought the rules we agreed on last year don't match the
commit messages, so I need to know the rules.

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