On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:04 PM, Ed Letifov wrote:
Also, for the future, should the @author tags be specified? I don't mind an impersonal collective ownership at all, but I can imagine someone bugging you someday, since you will be the one actually performing commit.
I used to be strongly for @author tags, but Greg Stein convinced me otherwise. Author tags are not really definitive, if you really want to know who did something to a file you need to check the CVS log. Also, I think author tags are a way that code gets 'assigned' to someone, and I would like to avoid the problem of code ownership that I have seen in other open source project I have worked on. Although, I think the Apache system is designed to reduce the impact of such problems, I think not having author tags will help.
Just my 2 cents,
-dain
(Hopefully Greg will post his feelings on this.)
