Re: [VOTE] Remove all author tags from all source code files

[Nicola Ken Barozzi]

Paul Hammant wrote:

Right, you should set at the outset of a project the expectations for @author tags for a project. Many of us really like seeing out name in headers as it is proof to the claims we make on our
resumes. To wait four years then purge names from headers is shitty.

So author tags are what makes you contribute?

How does this work with Krysalis?

Each project decides. Small projects usually use them, big ones don't need to.

Can you expand your community enthusiasm to remove your own
name from your org, site, source, pages, credits such that it has peer equivalence to everyone
else who contributes? Anonimize yourself?

I'm not saying this at all. It's the classfile-author association that is IMHO not necessary. Not due credit, that is in the project docs and site.

As an aside you, Nicola, have little java contributed
to the Avalon codebase compared to others. It is no skin of your nose if this is taken away.  We
have willfully accepted patches from others and credited them with author tags as we pushed them
in. I'll tell you that this will tail off if there is no name in lights reward for those brave
souls.

You mean that author tags are your reward for contributing? This is exactly what IMHO should not happen.

Is it not time we stopped damaging this community. Oh, and this is damage, you are steam-rolling
over the feelings of others. It was *completely* unecessary to suggest this.

We have already "decided" somewhat to do it. I want to know if it's really what we want or not, hence a vote to clear up things.

> Just becuase you
> are PMC chair does not mean you have to invent things to do.

Please calm down.

I am amazed that so many people have voted in favor.  I emplore people to switch their votes.

There was a discussion on the incubator list about @author tags.
I was the almost only one that tried to say that there is value in them. A month passed, and I changed my mind.

I'm amazed that some are so tied to them.

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