Some ASF members, including directors (names withheld protect the innocent), will say that making a recommendation about author tags is one of the worst decisions made by the board. Anyway, the decision has been discussed many times over and I find it a little discouraging that the weight of the formal recommendation tends to drown any reasonable discussion on the matter.

At 11:48 AM 11/3/2006, you wrote:
No, don't feel like that, because it's not so clear. We have had a lot of discussion about @author tags, especially about those which existed when we imported some java classes from other apache project, to eliminate some dependencies. (not sure we have chose the best solution ;)

Emmanuel.

On 11/3/06, Danny Angus <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Emmanuel Lecharny" <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/11/2006 10:23:41:

> Yeah, this the reason why we only put : @author  <a href="mailto:
> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]">Apache Directory Project</a>

OMG, that makes so much sense I feel like a total idiot!
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