Excerpts from Peter Geoghegan's message of jue may 10 09:12:57 -0400 2012:
> On 10 May 2012 13:45, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> > Right, but I think it would be good to identify them explicitly as reviewers
> > if we're going to include the names.
>
> +1. I think we should probably do more to credit reviewers. It's not
> uncommon for a reviewer to end up becoming a co-author, particularly
> if they're a committer, but it's a little misleading to add a reviewer
> after the feature description without qualifying that they are the
> reviewer.
Agreed.
What about crediting patch sponsors (other than the author's employer, I
mean)? I remember crediting one in a commit message and being told it
wasn't okay. Is it okay to credit them in the release notes?
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