Thomas Vandahl wrote: > > Why is the use of author tags discouraged? I found these to be valuable > information when trying to understand a piece of code, simply by > recognizing the style of a certain author.
1. once committed, it isn't your code, it's the project's code. (Not from a copyright perspective, you still have that. But the copy in the ASF is now the project's to manage. We don't have technology leads/patch wranglers here, unlike other OSS projects and methodologies.) 2. they inevitably lead to out-of-band, off-the-dev-list communications to the author from third parties, including IP auditors, affected users who hit a bug, developers with patches to offer, etc. 3. they add non-ASF metrics such as who touched how many files, who has more merit, etc. Simply - our measure of participants comes from subversion commit history, the 'participants' or 'who we are' project page, and nothing much more. We summarize their contributions in CHANGES, but that list is rarely well maintained nor definitively complete. 4? w.r.t. style of specific authors, doesn't the project aim to have one consistent style? If author tags can encourage folks to adopt their own style in lieu of following a project-wide style, isn't this an issue? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
