My thoughts on the @author tag:
I feel like the git commit log gives a clearer and more usefull picture of
this sort of information - You can see the initial author, as well as the
author of any major changes, and can usually get a good idea of who is
currently doing the most work in that area of the codebase (as compared to
someone who authored a class 5 years ago and hasn't touched it since).
The one exception is when stuff gets transitioned between repositories or
other similar bulk import cases.
Conversely, the @author tag is much less maintainable, less enforcable, and
prone to getting out-of-date.
Torben
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz>
wrote:
> 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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