Thanks everyone for upvoting this change. I have removed @author tags from 3519 (Java + JS files) using 'find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i /@author/d'
Created a pull request #100 <https://github.com/apache/incubator-geode/pull/100> Yay! 100th pull request on Geode. Sai On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Bruce Schuchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > Author tags haven't been useful for a quite a while now > > > Le 2/17/2016 1:35 PM, Anthony Baker a écrit : > >> +1 >> >> The ASF policy is well known [1] and I think @author information is no >> longer helpful in any case. >> >> Anthony >> >> [1] >> http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt >> >> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Sai Boorlagadda <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> In preparation towards graduation I am planning to remove author tags >>> from >>> all source files. >>> >>> GEODE-52 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-52>, has some >>> discussions whether we should or shouldn`t remove them. >>> >>> I would like to restart the discussion and get a fresh consensus from the >>> community. >>> >>> Find below some of the reasons why ASF is against the author tags: >>> >>> - Attributions in source files are not up to date. >>> - Software is a team effort. >>> - ASF sells the code base as an ASF brand. >>> - Shield against law-suits. >>> >>> -- >>> Sai Boorlagadda >>> >> > -- Sai Boorlagadda
