Hardy har :-)
No. So what is the *real* use of knowing the original author of the
code which has been rewritten a dozen times over - or someone who has
not contributed in five years and nobody knows how to contact anymore?
/Janne
On 31 Mar 2008, at 22:40, Andrew Jaquith wrote:
The smartass reply is, "authorship and ownership are two different
things." :) It's not an @owner tag, or a @currentmaintainer tag, is
it?
On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Janne Jalkanen wrote:
For example: I did a bunch of re-writing on MailUtil about 6
months ago that added JNDI features, completely re-factored the
main processing methods, and added several private functions. I
changed, touched, and re-wrote 80% of the code. For that reason,
I added myself as an author.
If you've touched so much of the code, why don't you then remove
the other authors? They no longer have any relevance in the
actual authorship of the current file...
I am totally uncertain as to what the @authorship really signifies
or what the benefit of it is.
/Janne
