On 3/5/07, Saurabh Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just tried a simple perl command which removes the @author lines from the *.java files in derby source trunk (Well I tried in on Solaris 11) Following is the command : [EMAIL PROTECTED]/WS/trunk$ perl -pi -e 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/\n/' `find . -name *.java` I ran this on my sand box and generated a stat file (also an diff file). If community agrees on removing the @author tag I will submit the patch too, but for a refrence I had attached stat file with this mail. Comments / Suggestions ?
While the @author tags might possibly be of some historical interest, I think they should be removed. Using them is discouraged, and rightly so, to avoid any illusions of 'code ownership,' and it would be good if the source reflected that. And if someone is interested in history, that history is preserved by source control. The real history of any file, at least as far back as Derby is concerned, can be ascertained by running 'svn annotate' to see who most recently changed any particular line of the source. So, yes, +1 to removing any remaining author tags in the source. andrew
