Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list
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Msg-id 20200909182742.GA2385@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>)
Responses Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 2020-Sep-09, Fujii Masao wrote:

> On 2020/09/09 14:15, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Attached is a patch to standardize Japanese names as given-name-first
> > in the v13 contributors list as before.
> 
> Using given-name-first order is our consensus? I was thinking we have not
> reached that yet and our "vague" consensus was to use the name that each
> contributor prefers, for example the name that used in the email signature, etc.

That's indeed our historical practice.  See previous thread where we've
discussed this at length,
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20150613231826.GY133018%40postgresql.org#88d245a5cdd2b32e1e3e80fc07eab6f2

The Economist piece Peter G cited is also relevant.

The commit Peter E cited seems more anecdotical than precedence-setting,
since there was no actual discussion, and whatever little there was was
confined to pgsql-committers.


An easy way to avoid any confusion is to uppercase the family name in
the cases where it goes first.

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