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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:08:30 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib
	module documentation?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
> 

Perhaps the at a minimum the email goes in the commit?

Joshua D. Drake


> 			regards, tom lane
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