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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:21:10 -0500
Message-ID: <12069.1197008470@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4758E528.2090507@agliodbs.com>
References: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Historically, the only way to troubleshoot some of the contrib modules 
> was to e-mail the author.  If people think that we've reached a standard 
> that everything in /contrib is now well-documented and supported by the 
> general community, the I suppose we don't need contact information.  I'm 
> not so sure myself.

I do not think that we should encourage people to mail the authors first
rather than pgsql-bugs.  For one thing, a lot of those addresses are
dead, and some of the ones that aren't don't respond especially fast.

If the community-at-large can't handle a bug, we certainly have enough
institutional memory to try to contact the original author, even if that
address isn't in the SGML docs.

			regards, tom lane



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