Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:42:04 -0400
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> As for annotating the commit messages, I think something like:
> 
> Reporter: Sam Jones
> Author: Beverly Smith
> Author: Jim Davids
> Reviewer: Fred Block
> Reviewer: Pauline Andrews

Can I just toss in one little note from the sidelines?  Various other
projects (Linux kernel at the top of the list) have adopted tags like
Reported-by and Reviewed-by for metadata like this.  (Authorship lives in
git itself, with additional authors sometimes ambiguously indicated with
additional Signed-off-by lines).  There are tools out there which make use
of those tags now.  It would seem that, in the absence of a reason to make
up your own tags, it might make sense to be consistent with other projects?

Thanks,

jon