On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Alessandro Adamou <[email protected]> wrote: > ...what's the ASF way to deal with @author annotations in > single classes? Do we put our Apache IDs there, or full names, or nothing at > all?...
The recommendation is to avoid @author tags [1] - among other reasons, they might cause people to contact developers directly (which we don't want - questions should go to our lists) and they quickly become stale when people work collectively on code. The Whole Truth about who committed what is provided by svn annotate anyway. -Bertrand [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt and http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/200402.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
