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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-30:
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While author tags have been discouraged by the board it is up to each PMC to
determine whether or not to use them. Personally, I don't like author tags.
They encourage people looking at the code to email the individuals directly
instead of contacting the mailing list. While some may desire this as a part of
their business model, I find it particularly annoying when people email me off
list and always respond by pointing them back to the list.
I also think that having one's name on a "team" list, both for committers and
contributors, is a far more effective way of providing acknowledgement. In
addition, anyone can find out who the actually contributed to what through a
few simple svn commands. Again, it would be far more effective to provide a web
interface to the source code so people can look at the history and do diffs
right from the log4j web site than using author tags.
> 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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