I also support removing the author annotations On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Adam Taft <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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 > > >
