On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> My name seemed to be registered in reverse order. My given name is "Hayato", and family name is "Kuroda".
> I'm unfamiliar around here but should they be "Hayato Kuroda"?
We can list people however they want to be listed. However, I'm not
entertaining historical corrections, as those blogs have already been
published. What I'm looking to get updated right now is making the
commits2025 table correct, and as your output shows, in your case it
is already consistent for the current year. If you wanted it to say
Kuroda Hayato rather than Hayato Kuroda, you could send me an UPDATE
statement which I would apply to the database. If you like it the way
it is, then there is no need to do anything.
In general, a big reason why people got listed inconsistently is that
their email name wasn't consistent. In your case, I think the
inconsistency is actually a difference in practice between committers.
Amit Kapila seems to routinely list you as Kuroda Hayato, while other
people are listing you as Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
(and my scripts then strip out the email address, leaving just the
name). What I would encourage all committers to do going forward is
make the headers in the commit message match the way that the name is
shown in the email, and what I would encourage people submitting
patches to do is make sure that their email name matches how they want
to be listed. There are a number of people who either post from
multiple email accounts with slightly different names, or who actually
change the email name from time to time throughout the year, as by
adding or removing a middle initial. If you do this, it's not entirely
surprising if the result isn't entirely consistent.
A new trend that I find somewhat alarming is people posting with an
email name that is completely and totally different from the name that
they put in the email. This seems to happen mostly with people from
Russia and China. The email name might be something like, you know,
Fred Smith, and then the signature in the email will be like, Alena
Rostova. I feel this is quite bad because it makes the identity of the
person contributing to PostgreSQL completely unclear: is it Fred Smith
or is it Alena Rostova? But at the very least, it's not surprising if
it messes up the contributions statistics or the release note credits.
--
Robert Haas
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