Re: Tips on committing

On 2018-06-28 11:14:38 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm not sure pgsql-committers was the right audience. Cross-posting to
> pg-hackers.
> 
> On 2018-Jun-28, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >      2  Reported-by:
> >      5  Author:
> >      6  Reviewed-by:
> >      7  Tested-by:
> 
> Should these include email addresses?

I'm not sure it's that helpful, they tend to be out of date pretty soon.


> I've also used "Diagnosed-by" to credit a person who spent time studying
> a bug's mechanism and how to fix it.  Sometimes that's the same as
> Reported-by, but I think the weight is quite different.

Yea, same here.


> Apparently, there's a recent trend to credit patch authors using
> "Co-authored-by".  Should we use that too?
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/41847267/

I just put multiple people into Authors, with order roughly implying the
amount of work. Don't really see a reason to split it off further?

Greetings,

Andres Freund