On Dec 5, 2007 8:58 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we do want to keep credits in the SGML pages, how extensive should > they be?
... > 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. One of the things that I used to do with the old HOWTO documentation from the Linux Documentation Project was jump directly to the Acknowledgement or Credit sections and read who the author had decided to thank, and then search for more information about those people and what they had done. While it might be a pain to maintain that information, it does humanize and provide context for a document. Also, the tradition of thanking people (or higher powers) and taking a few moments to reflect on who might have helped one accomplish something is a good one. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I like that the content of credit sections is not uniform. Rather than remove credits, we could apply a regex to obfuscate the email addresses, and offer a mention to authors in the more general contributors area when packages are added. -selena -- Selena Deckelmann PDXPUG - Portland PostgreSQL Users Group http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx http://www.chesnok.com/daily ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq