Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.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?
Joshua D. Drake
> regards, tom lane
>
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