From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:54:16 +0100
Message-ID: <20071206085416.GA18541@svr2.hagander.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47579ADB.4000606@commandprompt.com>
References: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<47579ADB.4000606@commandprompt.com>
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:46:51PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >As of CVS HEAD, some of the contrib module documentation pages have
> >extensive credit screeds, eg
> >http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/cube.html
> >and some just have the author's name, with or without an <email> link,
> >and some don't have anything at all.
>
> >I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, except that I think
> >we should have a uniform policy for all the contrib modules.
>
> Well once we push directly into the core documentation I agree that
> outside of release notes (although you just brought that up in another
> thread) we don't need to be mentioning contributions like that. Those
> who have contributed are in the logs.
>
> Further those who have provided reasonable contribution really should be
> mentioned on the contributors page that is up for discussion which would
> make the rest of this moot yes?
+1, since they are listed in the release notes when the contrib modules are
added - just like any other piece of code. IMO no reason to treat contrib
differently from any other code in this case.
//Magnus
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