On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 02:41:06AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't wish to object to adding Nakamori-san here, but I feel like we
> need a policy that doesn't require last-minute updates to release notes.
>
> As far as I've understood, the idea is to credit people based on the
> time frame in which their patches were committed, not on the branch(es)
> that the patches were committed to. Otherwise we'd have to retroactively
> add people to back-branch acknowledgements, and we have not been doing
> that. So a patch that goes in during the v16 development cycle means
> that the author should get acknowledged in the v16 release notes,
> even if it got back-patched to older branches. What remains is to
> define when is the cutoff point between "acknowledge in v15" versus
> "acknowledge in v16". I don't have a strong opinion about that,
> but I'd like it to be more than 24 hours before the 15.0 wrap.
> Could we make the cutoff be, say, beta1?
Is the issue that we are really only crediting people whose commits/work
appears in major releases, and not in minor ones?
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