Hi Corey, On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM Corey Huinker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been working offline on a system for generating the credits for a > given postgres release, which derives most of its notion of what a name is > based on what passed for real names in previous year's release credits and > the name/email combinations that people use when sending to the hackers > list. When names without emails or emails without names are found, it > checks to see if that name/email was used with a proper pairing elsewhere. > From there I can build up correction lists to cover typos and misspellings. > > The obvious gaps created by that sort of a system is that it doesn't > immediately recognize first-time contributors, and it doesn't recognize the > first time a typo happens, etc. > > To that end, I've compiles three lists: > > 1. names that don't yet have a known "preferred name". 9 times out of 10 > the name is fine, but I'd like to have the community take a pass at > correcting name spellings, proper name order, etc. There are 7 of these. > > 2. email addresses with no name associated. The program goes through the > pg-hackers mbox files from 2024 up through last month - so the email being > in this list is probably a sign that either the email address was > erroneous, or the sender does not want their name associated. There are 288 > of these, but I assume a lot of them are duplicates. > > 3. Names in preferred_name+variant_name where evidence exists that the > preferred name is the spelling preferred by that person, with additional > rows pairing the preferred names with known variations/typos/etc. There are > 320 of these, but some may be duplicates. > > If you did work on v19, your name or email should be in one of those. > Check it out, post corrections and I'll coalesce them. Also, if you > expected to see your name (or somebody else's) but don't, reply with the > commit hash(es) that you feel are in error. > For the below 3, you can just keep Satya Narlapuram Satyanarayana Narlapuram SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM Satyanarayana Narlapuram Satya Narlapuram Satyanarayana Narlapuram Satyanarayana Narlapuram Thanks, Satya
