From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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 11:46:08 +0530
Message-ID: <4758E528.2090507@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom,
> If we do want to keep credits in the SGML pages, how extensive should
> they be? I already took it on myself to remove Gene Selkov's snailmail
> address, but do we even want email addresses there? A lot of them are
> probably dead, and the ones that aren't are causing their owners to get
> extra spam, because an <email> link is about the easiest thing to scrape
> from a webpage that there could possibly be.
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.
--Josh
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