No feeling either way on 'em. Strip 'em if you'd like. - James
Garrett Rooney wrote: > In the spirit of tackling the potentially contentious subjects early > on, how do people feel about @author tags? > > I know some developers are very attached to them, but personally I'm > not a big fan. They tend to become less and less accurate as time > goes on (if you rewrite half a file, do you add your @author tag? if > you rewrite the whole thing do you remove the initial one?), and they > encourage territoriality in the codebase that really doesn't have any > place in an open source project. The only real purpose they serve is > to ensure that people get credit, and that is already taken care of by > other means, committers are listed on the project web site, and > contributors are acknowledged in commit logs and changelogs. > > There's no hard and fast rule about such things at the ASF, projects > are free to do as they wish, so if people feel strongly we can > certainly leave them in, but I figured it was worth bringing up early > on, so if we decide to remove them we can do so now, before people get > used to having them around. > > Thoughts? > > -garrett >
