On 3/28/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/28/06, Sandy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have searched some and the arguments don't hold water with me. > > Main reasons I cba to put my name on stuff I touch or create nowadays: > > * Private emails asking questions, offering patches etc. It starts to add > up. > * It's an effort to put @author in. I'm lazy. Lots of names in one > file does start to feel spammy. > * It's pretty minor in terms of recognition. > > > I'm proud of the code I've contributed and I think an @author tag is > > proper recognition. I feel strongly enough about this that I'd rather > > not contribute to apache at all than loose that recognition. We are > > not the "Apache Borg". We are a group of individuals that enjoy > > programming. I am not willing to be assimilated and if the rest of > > apache has a problem with that then revoke my commit rights. > > Until we decide as a community to remove the @author bits
Hmm, I thought we'd made that decision some time ago. Am I spacing? , you're > welcome to keep adding them in. I'm pretty sure we've not made any > community decisions as that thread would have stretched on for a long > time. > > It's not a case of borg btw; the alternative to @author appears to be > listing the people involved in a project somewhere. Might be > interesting to do that per release :) Very Sesame St; "Commons Lang > 2.2 came to you via the work of ....". We already list the developers on the component web sites. For Pool, for example: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/pool/team-list.html -- Martin Cooper To refer directly to Rahul's "some of us believe" bit; I also believe > that 50% of javadoc is a distraction to the code :) I doubt we're > going to change that. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
