Re: who is pgsql in cvs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: who is pgsql in cvs
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Msg-id 12020.1140206511@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to who is pgsql in cvs  (Christian Bird <cabird@gmail.com>)
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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


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