Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On 2026-Apr-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> 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 don't see in what way this is useful.  Why do you want to suppress
people from getting credit for the work they do?  Having changed the
commit guidance this way, I think no committer would use Co-authored-by
at all.

> 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.

> 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.

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