On 09/Oct/2009 00:25, Mark Hindess wrote: > In message <529434575.1255030111261.javamail.j...@brutus>, > "Jesse Wilson (JIRA)" writes: >> Remove @author tags from code >> ----------------------------- >> >> Key: HARMONY-6348 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6348 >> Project: Harmony >> Issue Type: Task >> Reporter: Jesse Wilson >> Priority: Minor >> >> >> From a 2004 email >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/<[email protected]> >> "author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in >> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our >> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative >> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications >> around the use of author tags >> >> I'd like to remove author tags from Harmony code to bring it closer >> into alignment with Android, which has no author tags. > > I'm not directly concerned about alignment with Android but I do think that > Apache policy encourages @author tag removal so I am in favour of doing this. > >> Unless there are objections, I'll prepare a patch... > > What do you think? If there are no objections then next week I shall > script their removal.
As I've said before, I'm +0 for removing the author tags. I know that concerns have been raised in the past about people getting the proper recognition for their contributions. May I suggest that if you remove all the author tags that you collate the names and post a list here for posterity. That should associate people's names with Harmony archives well enough, or we can combine it with a list of the ICLAs we have received and create a contributors file in SVN. Regards, Tim
