> there is reasons for having them and for not having them. I personally
> like to have a quick glance on the author tag to check where the class
> originated - and I personally don't think they work as a "no
> trespassing" sign at all, and have never done so.
Ever? Anywhere?
No way. The closest thing is a loose association you pick up after being on
the list for a while. For example, when I think of the tree2 component, I
think of Sean. When I think of Portlets, I think of Stan. The
scheduler/calendar component, Jurgen. But there's no way any of them
would/could say "hey, that's my area".
geir
BTW, I'm ccing the dev list because Matze moved it there.
Dennis Byrne
> regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On 2/25/07, Bernd Bohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm fine with removing the author tags, too.
>>
>> We can enforce this with a checkstyle rule:
>>
>> <!-- No @author tags -->
>> <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
>> <property name="format" value="@author"/>
>> <property name="message" value="No @author tag allowed"/>
>> </module>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>> Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>> > Hi PMC fellows,
>> >
>> > I'd like to resuscitate the discussion we had in the past on the
>> > @author tags. These tags aren't a good practice. For instance,
>> when
>> > the @author tags belong to
>> > committers no longer active in the project so they no longer
>> function
>> > as a "no trespassing" sign.
>> >
>> > Also on a incubator based discussion, Bill pointed out:
>> > <snip>
>> > In general, @author tags and attributions are poison to ASF-style
>> > collaboration, they are all about carving out niches in the code.
>> > The ASF-style development is about tearing down niches and
>> promoting
>> > collaboration across an entire code base. Collaboration and
>> ownership
>> > are generally mutually exclusive.
>> > </snip>
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> > I am fine w/ removing them step by step
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matthias
>> >
>>
>
>
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