Author tags
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                 Key: LOG4J2-30
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-30
             Project: Log4j 2
          Issue Type: Wish
            Reporter: Curt Arnold
            Priority: Minor


Logging this as a bug so that it eventually gets resolved.

>From log4j-dev thread "Future development of log4j 2.0"

On 20/02/2010 12:42 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
there might be other discussions which could
lead to frustrations on several sides. I think on discussions like
having author tags and such.


On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
Author tags is a way of recognizing contributors. Recognition is a
very important aspect of oss.


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Author tags have been discouraged by the board, 
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt
 (section D)

This statement by Dirk-Wlllem van Gulik, then president of the ASF, expands on 
the rationale: 
http://marc.info/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=107787986409413&w=2

Don't think we need to tackle the issue until there is code someone wants to 
tag.  I'm not planning on tagging any code that I initially develop.



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