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

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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