Re: ChangeLog entry: Author or Commttier?

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[reordering the quote]

Jun T wrote on Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:56 +00:00:
> If I remember correctly the name of the Committer was used before,
> but it seems Author's name is used recently.

I think it changes not as a function of time but as a function of
committer.  E.g., my ChangeLog script sets the changelog author to the
git author.

> When creating a ChangeLog entry, should I use the name of the
> Author of the patch, or of the Committer?

Putting the author's name in the ChangeLog author place makes for
fewer differences between people with a commit bit and people without
one.  That's consistent with the gist of guidelines elsewhere, e.g., Freenode's
[I didn't check Libera's] "don't wear the op hat whilst not using it" and Apache's
"don't use @author tags in source files".

(I'm not advocating for a particular option; I'm just presenting one argument.)

Cheers,

Daniel