Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)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.

			regards, tom lane