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David Bowen commented on HADOOP-1147:
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Sorry Konstantin, but I agree with the majority here. I think the idea is that
the code is collectively owned. The concept of collective ownership seems not
to work on a large scale, but has been shown to work quite well on Open Source
projects.
Sun's code conventions don't recommend the use of @author, although it is shown
in a code example. Netbeans puts it in by default, but you can change the
template to turn this off.
> 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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