Re: Draft release notes complete

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> I'd vote for starting a separate thread to solicit people's opinions
> on whether we need names in the release notes. Is there anybody on
> -hackers who would be offended, or would have a harder time persuading
> $BOSS to let them spend time on Postgres if they weren't mentioned in
> the release notes? There'd still be a policy of crediting people in
> commit messages of course, but it's not clear to me whether the release
> note mentions are important to anybody.

Looks like this is mostly answered, and we obviously don't need another
thread, but the answer to the above is "yes".

Release notes are very public, plain text, easy to read, very archived
and searchable. Commit messages might as well be a black hole as far as
visibility to anyone not a developer in the project.

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