In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > I would like to remove the author tags from the rest of the code but I > think it makes it harder to aquire a community. Many people get a buzz > out of it and I have seen people keep contributing because of it. It
Uh... whoops. Maybe I misunderstand, but it sounds like you're saying that people are participating in the community *because* they get to see their name in the @author tags. That isn't right... there should be ways to acknowledge the people in the community, but not associate them so strongly with the source. > also helps in the situation that code gets abandondend because you can > always go back to original author regardless of whether it gets moved > around in CVS. Oh, the data is always in CVS, or maybe a CHANGES file, or somewhere. But if the code gets abandoned, then you could always just drop it on the floor. If it got integrated, then there is certainly a worry about how it got there without a maintainer. Or if it *had* a maintainer, but they left, then why aren't other developers taking responsibility to maintain it or to jettison it. mod_proxy was languishing *hard* in Apache 2.0. About two years ago, we saw that nothing was happening with it except for some basic maintenance to keep it compiling when interfaces changed. For all intents and purposes, it only dragged us down because it caused maintenance. We shoved the thing out into a new CVS module and removed it from the standard Apache 2.0 distribution. Hoo boy did that light some fires! About six months later, we had a whole new mod_proxy after a bunch of people worked to get it up to snuff and back over the bar. It is now back in Apache 2.0 standard and being released. All this without author tags. We didn't send the proxy module back to the original author (whoever that may have been, they obviously weren't interested). Removing the abandoned/unmaintained code was the best thing for it. Cheers, -g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
