Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua Berkus
Subject Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes
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Msg-id 1927607009.268722.1308273341744.JavaMail.root@mail-1.01.com
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In response to Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Crediting reviewers & bug-reporters in the release notes
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Bruce,

> I should back up and explain that the reason for having usernames on
> release feature items is not to give credit, but rather to assign
> blame
> later, in case the features cause problems. The submitter becomes the
> default go-to person for problems with that item. Having a list of
> reviewers does not serve that purpose, hence the slippery slope
> comment.

Well, unfortunately, while you and I might understand that, most of our community does not.  And to the completely
uninitiated,it sure looks like credit. 

All of this is becoming less of a problem as we update the contributor list regularly.  If I can clean up the sponsors
listas well, I think we'll hear less complaints. 

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
San Francisco

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