"Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>RE: [Thoughts and proposal] RunDataI have followed a couple threads on
>various Jakarta mailing lists, and it turns out that the author tags is
>preserved/removed based on a project consensus. I for one lean towards
>keeping them, I think they encourage people to contribute?
Me too. I personally admit that susceptible to the sin of vanity. I
like seeing my name on code that is widely used. So yes, I would like
to keep them, too.
>While they have (thanxs Jeff) been removed from the 2_3 branch, I am now
>thinking that when the HEAD gets updated, we should leave the author tags
>alone?
I'm not happy about this and would have liked to be asked whether I
agreee to this. I don't like to have anonymous code globs; it is nice
if you know who wrote what so you can ask the autohr if you suspect a
problem. Even big companies encourage their developers to keep their
names in the code.
Regards
Henning
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