On 23/03/2010, at 9:46 PM, Adam Heath wrote:

> Scott Gray wrote:
>> On 23/03/2010, at 9:37 PM, Adam Heath wrote:
>> 
>>> Scott Gray wrote:
>>>> This seems important, could you explain how it works a little more?
>>> There was a thread about this recently, where I announced which
>>> classes had full coverage.  This annotation just means that the
>>> person(s) listed in the annotation are monitoring the source.  That
>>> means that those people might be who to turn too if there are
>>> questions on how the code works.
>> 
>> But what does it do functionally?  How would it be different from:
>> // "Don't mess up my code buddy!" signed Adam Heath
> 
> Shows up in javadoc.

Got it

> 
> The retention policy could be changed to to Runtime, so that a test
> case that fails could report something automatically.

Doesn't buildbot do that for us already?

> Remember, annotations are easier to access programatically.

My only concern is that we removed all author information when we moved to 
Apache and this feels very similar to it.  I understand you're not claiming 
authorship but it does feel kind of implied.

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