Gotcha.  It will be simple though since we're completely removing them
- shouldn't take more than 30 min at most.  We can sneak that in
whenever.

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or even 1.x.  This is a graduation issue not a release issue.
>
> Take your time.
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
> On May 21, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
>
>> I agree that these should be removed.  I have seen Craig McClanahan's
>> name in @author tags in Tomcat and other projects, so I know they
>> exist elsewhere, but I definitely agree with you.  Can we add this as
>> a Jira issue for 1.0.1?
>>
>> My personal hope is to not delay the release for any reason other than
>> due to a mandatory requirement.
>>
>> 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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