Re: Release Note Changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Release Note Changes
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Msg-id 475D6474.8020604@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Release Note Changes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>   
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>     
>>> That's inaccurate - I've been listed by full name for at least the last 3 or 4 releases. I realise I'm not the
biggestcontributor to the core code, but 'newer' certainly isn't right.
 
>>>       
>
>   
>> Maybe that's because you have such a short name. ;-)
>>     
>
> Yeah, laziness on the part of those preparing the release notes is
> certainly a factor ;-).  
>
> Anyway, maybe a policy of "drop the last name on second and later
> mentions, unless this might cause confusion" would work.
>
>             
>   

You've probably written more in this thread than you would have if you'd 
used last names everywhere to start with. I suspect that might be the 
best policy, and that the laziness is best avoided in this case.

cheers

andrew


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