Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Cooper
+1 (non-binding) for removing them. I am very thankful for code that people donate to the project. However, in team/community settings I feel ideally that code belongs to everyone since it is everyone's responsibility to maintain the code. On 2/26/07, Matthias Wessendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 2/26/07, Scott O'Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 for removing them. I don't see this as an ownership issue. It's helpful to know who in the community might be able to answer questions on a particular piece of code. I know with the Portal work I did, it was very handy to know WHO had

Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Cooper
If you are looking to see who wrote a particular line of code, you can use SVN's blame tool which will also show you see the commit description which is helpful to see even who donated the code if a committer did the check-in. I think blame is more accurate than @author since it doesn't require

Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
yap ! -M On 2/26/07, Matt Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are looking to see who wrote a particular line of code, you can use SVN's blame tool which will also show you see the commit description which is helpful to see even who donated the code if a committer did the check-in. I think

Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
My personal policy is to redirect personal appeals for help to the appropriate user mailing list. I would encourage other developers who receive individual help requests to do the same. +1 doing the same. not getting 20 a day/week like you, but the pattern is a good one -M Craig On

Re: @author tags

2007-02-26 Thread Scott O'Bryan
Well the community seems to have spoken. I've just had the benefit of dealing with a niche set of usecases and it helped to be able to track down the original developer of some of the code because they no longer monitor the lists. The snv blame tool (in ASF) pretty much tells you who