On 13/Oct/2009 01:03, sebb wrote: > The problem with @author tags in code is that they can very quickly > get out of date. > After a few years of edits, how much of the original code is left? > Have the tags been kept up to date? Does it really make sense to have > recognition in the source code? > > Seems to me it's better to have a "contributors" page, for example as in: > > http://commons.apache.org/email/team-list.html > > Much easier to manage - and better visibility too.
Didn't we just talk about this a few weeks ago? http://markmail.org/thread/2vx6kp5gacfge2y5
