Thread: who is pgsql in cvs
Hello, I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an account used for some special purpose? It looks to have a number of commits over the life of the repository. If anyone could help me out by letting me know who pgsql is or if it isn't a person and fulfills some role, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch! -- Chris -- Christian Bird cabird@gmail.com Computer Science Dept. UC Davis
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Christian Bird wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity > with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres > as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs > committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they > used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a > tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an > account used for some special purpose? It looks to have a number of > commits over the life of the repository. If anyone could help me out > by letting me know who pgsql is or if it isn't a person and fulfills > some role, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch! pgsql == scrappy (me) ... its what I use for doing release packaging / tagging ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Christian Bird <cabird@gmail.com> writes: > I'm a grad student doing some work correlating mailinglist activity > with cvs activity for a datamining conference and I'm using postgres > as one of the OSS projects under study. For most names of cvs > committers, I've been able to determine what e-mail addresses they > used on this mailinglist. The one cvs identity that I'm having a > tough time with is pgsql. Is this cvs committer a person or an > account used for some special purpose? That's Marc Fournier in his capacity as packager. He also commits as scrappy --- not sure if he has any hard-and-fast rule about which account to use for what, but most of the time pgsql commits are just for activities associated with tagging releases. regards, tom lane