On Monday, April 6, 2026, Bruce Momjian <
bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
I think having "Co-authored-by:" mean one thing when "Author" appears
and a different thing when "Author" is missing is too confusing.
The community hasn’t recognized intermediate contributions between authorship and reviewer. Co-Author has always been available for technical reasons but doesn’t actually convey less status than Author even if some people intended it to be used that way. I don’t think we should change that. Stating it more clearly seems warranted.
Co-authored never means any thing different than “one of the authors”. It’s committed-by whose meaning changes in the presence/absence of author. I likewise don’t see changing that. For future users of this information, having a silent boundary at which the meaning/usage of labels changes is very annoying.
David J.
