Hi all, For each major and feature release, we include a *Credits* section at the end of the release notes to recognize and thank contributors.
Historically, we have listed contributors’ full names. However, this requires significant manual effort: the release manager must go through all contributors, infer full names from Git commit names, GitHub usernames, or JIRA accounts, or reach out to individuals directly for confirmation. I propose that we instead list contributors by their GitHub user ID, and include the full name from their GitHub profile when available. With this approach, entries in the *Credits* section would look like "cloud-fan (Wenchen Fan)", or simply "cloud-fan" if no full name is specified in the GitHub profile. I’ve opened a PR to implement this change: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/53728. Please let me know if you have any concerns or feedback. Thanks, Wenchen
