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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-1147:
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Subversion also prohibits author names in source files and has formalized the
credit messages to make them tool parseable. Subversion is a much larger
project, but it is interesting to see what they have done:
http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#crediting
> remove all @author tags from source
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> Key: HADOOP-1147
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1147
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assigned To: Doug Cutting
> Priority: Minor
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> We should remove @author tags from the source code. We give contributors
> credit in at least three places (Jira, subversion and CHANGES.txt). Many
> files have been substantially re-written by a range of contributors and their
> @author tags are no longer accurate. Also, @author tags imply individual
> ownership, when we should rather strive for community ownership.
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