Sean They are simply artifacts of its older life. I remove them whenever i see them now.
Thanks Joe On May 3, 2015 6:33 PM, "Tony Kurc" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
