Well the community seems to have spoken. I've just had the benefit of
dealing with a "niche" set of usecases and it helped to be able to track
down the original developer of some of the code because they no longer
monitor the lists. The snv blame tool (in ASF) pretty much tells you
who committed the code, not who knows it. Still, I do see the
compelling arguments to the contrary. I still hold though that @author
does not equal "owner" and that a community like Apache just needs to
get over that view of the world.
That being said, I suppose I don't feel too strongly about it. If
nobody knows about the code in general then chances are nobodies using
or maintaining the code and it's probably time to develop some new
expertise anyway. So I'll move to a +0 non-binding.
Scott
Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
My personal policy is to redirect personal appeals for help to the
appropriate user mailing list. I would encourage other developers who
receive individual help requests to do the same.
+1
doing the same. not getting 20 a day/week like you, but the pattern is
a good one
-M
Craig
> On 2/26/07, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > * I have not worked on them for four years (but I still get >20
personal
> > > emails for Tomcat help every week).
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > but to be serious, here is something that Ted brought up on the same
> > discussion, which I also started over in MyFaces land
> >
> > <snip>
> > As to why, Greg Stein sums it up well here:
> >
> > * http://tinyurl.com/mw7t6
> >
> > This issues has been discussed at length on the board and member
> > lists, and the ASF does prefer that our code be free of author tags,
> > but we leave the final determination to the individual PMCs.
> > </snip>
> >
>
