On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Claus Ibsen<claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to propose that we remove the @author tags in the source code
> for Apache Camel.
> We only have about 20 files with author tags and for 2 persons.
>
> As I understand its not common at Apache to have @author tags in the
> source code.
>
> Here is my +1 to remove them
This is always decided on a project-by-project basis at the ASF. There
is no policy that disallows them at all. In fact, I find them very
useful to know who has worked on a given class and therefore I prefer
them. Not having them winds up being a big pain in the ass, especially
if the code base gets moved around at all and history is lost (see
ActiveMQ). I won't go so far at to -1 the removal yet. I'll wait to
see what others have to say.
Bruce
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