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? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson
