Luke Daley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose that we instate a rule of not allowing any kind of author
> info in the codebase.
>
> I don't think it adds any value, and it gets awkward when refactoring
> contributed code with author attributions. At what point is it right to
> remove it? By never having it in there we don't have that problem.
>
> I'd like to:
>
> 1. Remove all the @author tags and similar
> 2. Add a checkstyle rule to error on @author tags
> 3. Update CONTRIBUTING.md to ask people not to submit pull requests with it on
>
Sounds good to me. I'm not sure if #3 is necessary, as it is
automatically checked by the checkstyle rule and we don't apply failing
code anyway.
cheers,
René
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