I agree as well. There's something a little nice about @author tags as a way of giving credit to the people who aren't the obvious people on a project. But they're rarely kept up to date, and the implication of ownership is not very OSS-friendly.
-- Adam On 2/26/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/26/07, Scott O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 for removing them. I don't see this as an "ownership" issue. It's > helpful to know who in the community might be able to answer questions > on a particular piece of code. I know with the Portal work I did, it > was very handy to know WHO had written a piece of code, especially since > they may not me monitoring the lists. > This argument does not scale in the long term. My own experience is a case in point -- my name is still splattered over lots of the Catalina sources inside Tomcat, even though: * I have not worked on them for four years (but I still get >20 personal emails for Tomcat help every week). * In many cases, the number of lines of code that were "mine" originally is less than half of the total -- so the tag is totally misleading. * The real people you want to talk to are the ones who have been making recent commits, not whoever wrote the code in the first place. I am strongly i+1 on removing @author tags, for the community related reasons that have been previously published. Craig McClanahan
