+1 to removing @author entirely. "unattributable" adds no additional value, and may even (ironically) provide derivable attribution.
Also, removing author information from any manifest files would make sense too. On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > In going through the code today I noticed there are some author javadoc > tags. Many of them are "none" or "unattributed", but there are a few that > are people. > > Author tags are generally frowned on at the ASF, AFAICT, but it's still up > to individual PMCs to decide if they want an actual rule. Those few > communities I've found a discussion in seem to have gone with "no author > tags". > > Personally, I don't think author tags are useful or appropriate. The code > is developed by "the NiFi community" and not any one individual. There's an > old thread on community@ that I think does a good job of making the case > against them[1]. > > What do folks think? If we go with the "no @author tags" thing, then I can > make a cleanup patch to remove what's already present. Checking for them in > new patches is pretty easy. > > [1]: http://s.apache.org/iZl > -- > Sean >
