Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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