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

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?
Date: 2007-12-06 05:12:52
Message-ID: 475784D4.2070305@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> As of CVS HEAD, some of the contrib module documentation pages have
> extensive credit screeds, eg
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/cube.html
> and some just have the author's name, with or without an <email> link,
> and some don't have anything at all.
>
> This bothers me; it seems like we should have a more uniform approach.

[snip]

> I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, except that I think
> we should have a uniform policy for all the contrib modules.
>
> Comments?

As far as I'm concerned, you can remove any credits for me from the
contrib modules I've worked on (or I can do it if you'd prefer).

In any case +1 for a uniform policy, and +1 for removing credits from
documentation.

Joe

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