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Andrzej Bialecki commented on HADOOP-1147:
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Big +1 - I'm familiar with this system from my FreeBSD days as a committer,
and it was working very well, it made the commit logs much more useful. FreeBSD
went even further - there was a pre-commit script that would check the proper
formatting of these comments, and refuse the commit if e.g. Reviewed By: was
missing for a particular critical sub-tree, such as kernel source. We could
formalize at least the format of Jira issue # references, and "reviewed by" -
although I'm wary of including literal people's emails, which are an easy
target for spammers.
> 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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