who is pgsql in cvs

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Christian Bird wrote:

Hello,

I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity
with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres
as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs
committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they
used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a
tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an
account used for some special purpose? It looks to have a number of
commits over the life of the repository. If anyone could help me out
by letting me know who pgsql is or if it isn't a person and fulfills
some role, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch!

pgsql == scrappy (me) ... its what I use for doing release packaging /
tagging ...

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Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

Christian Bird <cabird@gmail.com> writes:

I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity
with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres
as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs
committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they
used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a
tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an
account used for some special purpose?

That's Marc Fournier in his capacity as packager. He also commits
as scrappy --- not sure if he has any hard-and-fast rule about which
account to use for what, but most of the time pgsql commits are just
for activities associated with tagging releases.

regards, tom lane