Sounds good to me. The commit history is a better indicator of who to talk to if one does have a question to ask the author anyway.
-- Kevin On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to suggest stripping @author tags from all Java classes. In a > mature project like Cayenne they make little sense, as many people have > touched most files over the years. They only create false ownership > perception. As my name is on most of the classes, I figured it would be most > appropriate if I suggest that myself. > > Also IIRC there have been discussions in other places at Apache that > mentioned @author tags as a potential for developer legal liability (as you > know, one of the major goals of the ASF is to shield individual contributors > from such liability). I am personally less concerned about this particular > aspect, still figured I'd mention. > > Thoughts? > > Andrus >
