Do you mean only show the Github user id and make it a hyperlink to the profile url?
On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM Hyukjin Kwon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
