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<P><FONT SIZE=2>By the way I changed the credits (just in SVN docs not in 1.3 docs). If it looks okay I would like to move the changes over there too. <BR>
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Take a look and see if everyone is in agreement of the orderings. I know this is somewhat of a politically charged topic and I'm probably the last person that should be making these judgment calls, but I tried to base it on some sort of fuzzy statistical standards. Feel free to correct.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credits">http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credits</A><BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Regina<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: postgis-devel-bounces@postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Chris Hodgson<BR>
Sent: Thu 9/11/2008 1:05 PM<BR>
To: PostGIS Development Discussion<BR>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Credits seem very obsolete<BR>
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LOL. In 7.2 the interface for the GiST index changed and one of my first<BR>
postgis tasks was to re-write the geometry-type GiST bindings to be<BR>
compatible. I had no idea what I was doing but I had the old bindings<BR>
from 7.1 and could compare them against the "built-in" geometry type<BR>
bindings written by Oleg and Teodor (for both 7.1 and 7.2). Probably my<BR>
most significant contribution.<BR>
<BR>
Anyways, I support a major update to the credits. E-mails are likely a<BR>
remnant of the old-school CREDITS file, removing them seems reasonable<BR>
for publishing (not that our e-mails aren't already easily harvestable<BR>
from other places). I think the usual problem is that the biggest<BR>
contributors usually care the least about recognition, so it often takes<BR>
someone else to actually put together a good list.<BR>
<BR>
Chris<BR>
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Obe, Regina wrote:<BR>
> I just looked at the credits section of the docs.<BR>
> <A HREF="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credit">http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credit</A><BR>
> s<BR>
><BR>
> Normally I wouldn't care except it is in the first chapter so people may<BR>
> think things haven't been updated in a while.<BR>
><BR>
> 1) Do we really need to list email addresses there. Seems more good for<BR>
> bait for spam farms than anything else.<BR>
><BR>
> Plus all of the email addresses are obsolete except for maybe Chris<BR>
> Hodgson.<BR>
><BR>
> 2) I hope Chris isn't still maintaining the 7.2 bindings. I think there<BR>
> are more important things to do than that?<BR>
><BR>
> 3) Shouldn't Mark Cave-Ayland be moved up the ranks a bit?<BR>
><BR>
> Thanks,<BR>
> Regina<BR>
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