Re: [HACKERS] Time to update list of contributors

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Time to update list of contributors
Date: 2007-11-28 18:21:26
Message-ID: 20071128102126.658131bb@commandprompt.com
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:15:52 -0500
Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Committers <-- this is obvious the only question is it only
> > committers to the source tree or do we want to give equal billing to
> > the -www guys (I think yes to equal billing)
> >
> >
>
> I don't have a problem with that, but I think core code committers
> and www maintainers should be indentified separately.

Why? Then we have to also separate advocacy which is just as important
and pgfoundry... as well as possibly a host of others. We all have our
job in the community :).

> On a closely
> related note: last time I looked there was no way for anyone to
> discover on the web site who the committers actually are. That would
> also probably be useful.

See Dave's response about core not wanting committers that easily
identified. I actually recall this argument, basically there are times
when commit access might be revoked temporarily etc... IIRC..

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

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