Agree - I recall I had earlier suggested removing them as well. It's
simpler to just remove them all rather than have a "common author"
tag.

Kalle


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Usually, Apache projects don't have author tags.  I actually can't recall any 
> project that does.  There's a number of good reasons for this.
>
> -  the people who worked on a file can easily be discovered via the SCM system
> - after a while others may modify the file and then the list becomes a bit 
> confusing
> - removing individual author tags strengthens the code's affinity to the 
> community
>
> A good tag might be
>
> �...@author The Apache Shiro Project ([email protected])
>
> Up to you guys but I think they should be removed.  Just my 2 cents.
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>

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