Release notes & git attribution

Started by Marti Raudseppalmost 13 years ago3 messages
#1Marti Raudsepp
marti@juffo.org

Hi,

The 9.2.3 release notes say:
* Fix pg_upgrade's -O/-o options (Bruce Momjian)

You got it the wrong way around, he was the one who introduced the bug! ;)

I originally found, debugged and provided the fix:
/messages/by-id/CABRT9RBy1uRTMY-DfLDgBPCp+ZQU36M_+BLD4WFWuGOhg-M4hw@mail.gmail.com

No big deal, it was just one space, but I wanted to voice my
disagreement with how Postgres committers don't retain original patch
authorship information.

Regards,
Marti

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#2Simon Riggs
simon@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Marti Raudsepp (#1)
Re: Release notes & git attribution

On 8 February 2013 09:43, Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> wrote:

No big deal, it was just one space, but I wanted to voice my
disagreement with how Postgres committers don't retain original patch
authorship information.

I agree its very important to get that right.

It's important for the PostgreSQL project to encourage further
contribution by acknowledging and celebrating contributions, as well
as allowing external observers to see that work was done successfully
by particular people to confirm further sponsorship/time allocation
etc. That practice has long been followed and encouraged by the core
team and committers.

Some mistakes are made from time to time but there is a willingness to
make corrections to that.

I'll look into this.

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#3Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Marti Raudsepp (#1)
Re: Release notes & git attribution

Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> writes:

The 9.2.3 release notes say:
* Fix pg_upgrade's -O/-o options (Bruce Momjian)

You got it the wrong way around, he was the one who introduced the bug! ;)

Sorry about that. The release notes are made based on commit-log
entries. In this case we had

Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Branch: master [acdb8c225] 2012-12-10 23:03:25 -0500
Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [35fb1434b] 2012-12-10 23:03:28 -0500

Fix pg_upgrade -O/-o options

Fix previous commit that added synchronous_commit=off, but broke -O/-o
due to missing space in argument passing.

Backpatch to 9.2.

so it was Bruce's error not to credit you in the commit message.
I know that he knows better --- it is project policy to properly credit
patch authors. But mistakes do happen, of course. Again, my apologies
on behalf of the project.

regards, tom lane

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