I used to share Andrea's view but, as my confidence grew, I became more 
comfortable seeing @author tags as historical information not an 
assertion of ownership.

On 23/04/16 09:24, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Andrea had a very reasoned argument for not using the @author tag and
> started discouraging its use.
> It amounted to team ownership of the codebase empowering everyone to work
> on a class, rather than slowing down to seek permission (or even worse wait
> for someone else) to fix a problem.

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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