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. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ Subversion to GIT: the shortest path to happiness I've ever heard of (Alexey Klyukin)
