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

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