[postgis-devel] Credits seem very obsolete

[Obe, Regina]

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.  

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.

http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credits

Thanks,
Regina

-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Chris Hodgson
Sent: Thu 9/11/2008 1:05 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Credits seem very obsolete
 
LOL. In 7.2 the interface for the GiST index changed and one of my first 
postgis tasks was to re-write the geometry-type GiST bindings to be 
compatible. I had no idea what I was doing but I had the old bindings 
from 7.1 and could compare them against the "built-in" geometry type 
bindings written by Oleg and Teodor (for both 7.1 and 7.2). Probably my 
most significant contribution.

Anyways, I support a major update to the credits. E-mails are likely a 
remnant of the old-school CREDITS file, removing them seems reasonable 
for publishing (not that our e-mails aren't already easily harvestable 
from other places). I think the usual problem is that the biggest 
contributors usually care the least about recognition, so it often takes 
someone else to actually put together a good list.

Chris

Obe, Regina wrote:
> I just looked at the credits section of the docs.
> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#credit
> s
>
> Normally I wouldn't care except it is in the first chapter so people may
> think things haven't been updated in a while.
>
> 1) Do we really need to list email addresses there.  Seems more good for
> bait for spam farms than anything else.
>
> Plus all of the email addresses are obsolete except for maybe Chris
> Hodgson.
>
> 2) I hope Chris isn't still maintaining the 7.2 bindings.  I think there
> are more important things to do than that?
>
> 3) Shouldn't Mark Cave-Ayland be moved up the ranks a bit?
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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