On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> Apparently, there's a recent trend to credit patch authors using
>> "Co-authored-by". Should we use that too?
>> https://stackoverflow.com/a/41847267/
>
> I just put multiple people into Authors, with order roughly implying the
> amount of work. Don't really see a reason to split it off further?
One of the reasons that I've stuck with free-form text for denoting
authors rather than using tags is precisely so I can try to clarify
relative levels of contribution. I think being able to have multiple
Author: tags -- each such author being a major author -- and also
multiple Co-authored-by tags -- each such coauthor having made a
relatively small contribution -- would be an adequate amount of
distinction for almost all cases that I deal with.
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