Обсуждение: 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

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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 ...

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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