On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:34:32AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > I thought that this issue had been addressed, but I can't find the vote > results, if we had a vote. > > Thus, I'm asking to vote on this issue. > > Do you want that all @author tags and all reference to authors of source > code files be removed from the files themselves? The information about > the authors will still be present in commit messages and in the site > credits.
I assume this is a majority vote.. -1. Author info is frequently useful. Code moves around, and CVS histories get lost. Code gets copied into foreign (non-OSS) codebases. Also, contributors get a kick out of seeing their name in lights. I remember I did, when I contributed my first OSS patch to Log4j (way back, before it migrated to Apache) and Ceki added my name to Category.java. It is a small - but to some - important piece of recognition we can give to contributors. Besides, I believe we're all adult enough not to let @author tags get in the way of community code ownership. --Jeff -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
