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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module
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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.
> 
> This bothers me; it seems like we should have a more uniform approach.

[snip]

> 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.
> 
> Comments?

As far as I'm concerned, you can remove any credits for me from the 
contrib modules I've worked on (or I can do it if you'd prefer).

In any case +1 for a uniform policy, and +1 for removing credits from 
documentation.

Joe