Could we maybe add a link to the GitHub profile? Then it's up to the contributor to expose their personal information or not.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 11:52 AM Wenchen Fan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
