Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list

On 2020-Sep-09, Fujii Masao wrote:

> On 2020/09/09 14:15, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Attached is a patch to standardize Japanese names as given-name-first
> > in the v13 contributors list as before.
>
> Using given-name-first order is our consensus? I was thinking we have not
> reached that yet and our "vague" consensus was to use the name that each
> contributor prefers, for example the name that used in the email signature, etc.

That's indeed our historical practice. See previous thread where we've
discussed this at length,
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20150613231826.GY133018%40postgresql.org#88d245a5cdd2b32e1e3e80fc07eab6f2

The Economist piece Peter G cited is also relevant.

The commit Peter E cited seems more anecdotical than precedence-setting,
since there was no actual discussion, and whatever little there was was
confined to pgsql-committers.

An easy way to avoid any confusion is to uppercase the family name in
the cases where it goes first.

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