Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB16A2E3413; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:21:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 52321-07; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:21:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4DD2E3079; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:21:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lB76LAIw012070; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 01:21:11 -0500 (EST) To: Josh Berkus cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation? In-reply-to: <4758E528.2090507@agliodbs.com> References: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4758E528.2090507@agliodbs.com> Comments: In-reply-to Josh Berkus message dated "Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:46:08 +0530" Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:21:10 -0500 Message-ID: <12069.1197008470@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/31 X-Sequence-Number: 4699 Josh Berkus 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