[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree as well. There's something a little nice about
@author tags as a way of giving credit to the people
who aren't the obvious people on a project. But they're
rarely kept up to date, and the implication of ownership
is not very OSS-friendly.
-- Adam
On 2/26/07
There's already a system in place that tracks the changes and who made
them. It's called svn :-)
It's going to be far more accurate and complete than a system you
maintain manually :-)
On 2/28/07, Simon Lessard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm +0 about it. I think it's nice to know who wrote a
We should be including the name of the patch author in
every checkin message. I used to be in that habit,
got out of it, and I'm trying to do a better job with it lately.
-- Adam
On 3/1/07, Simon Lessard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not exactly, SVN show only the name of the commiter, not the
also, the contrib. file, martin proposed is a good thing
-M
On 3/2/07, Adam Winer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should be including the name of the patch author in
every checkin message. I used to be in that habit,
got out of it, and I'm trying to do a better job with it lately.
-- Adam
On
I agree as well. There's something a little nice about
@author tags as a way of giving credit to the people
who aren't the obvious people on a project. But they're
rarely kept up to date, and the implication of ownership
is not very OSS-friendly.
-- Adam
On 2/26/07, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL
) will have the patience to keep such a thing up-to-date, hence the +0.
On 2/28/07, Adam Winer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree as well. There's something a little nice about
@author tags as a way of giving credit to the people
who aren't the obvious people on a project. But they're
rarely kept up
] wrote:
moved discussion to dev, since this is a *public* topic
-M
On 2/25/07, Matthias Wessendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi PPMC fellows,
I'd like to plan to remove the @author tags in the code, since these
aren't a good practice. For instance, when the @author tags belong to
committers
, not whoever wrote the code in the first place.
I am strongly i+1 on removing @author tags, for the community related
reasons that have been previously published.
Craig McClanahan
brought up on the same
discussion, which I also started over in MyFaces land
snip
As to why, Greg Stein sums it up well here:
* http://tinyurl.com/mw7t6
This issues has been discussed at length on the board and member
lists, and the ASF does prefer that our code be free of author tags,
but we leave
, and the ASF does prefer that our code be free of author tags,
but we leave the final determination to the individual PMCs.
/snip
--
Matthias Wessendorf
http://tinyurl.com/fmywh
further stuff:
blog: http://jroller.com/page/mwessendorf
mail: mwessendorf-at-gmail-dot-com
land
snip
As to why, Greg Stein sums it up well here:
* http://tinyurl.com/mw7t6
This issues has been discussed at length on the board and member
lists, and the ASF does prefer that our code be free of author tags,
but we leave the final determination to the individual PMCs.
/snip
://tinyurl.com/mw7t6
This issues has been discussed at length on the board and member
lists, and the ASF does prefer that our code be free of author tags,
but we leave the final determination to the individual PMCs.
/snip
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