From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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 12:03:52 -0500
Message-ID: <47597CF8.20307@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47596FFE.9090903@commandprompt.com>
References: <3393.1196917132@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<4758E528.2090507@agliodbs.com>
<12069.1197008470@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<47596FFE.9090903@commandprompt.com>
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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?
>
I don't see any reason, unless we're going to start doing that for all
contributions. 'contrib' is a serious misnomer anyway, and there's no
reason to think in general that the original author is specially
responsible for any of it. I think Tom's point is entirely valid.
cheers
andrew
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: andrew@dunslane.net, jd@commandprompt.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?
In-Reply-To: <47597CF8.20307@dunslane.net>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox