Paul Hammant wrote:
Greg,
I believe my other emails outline my issue.
They outline your problem with the @author tag. I don't understand
why you
believe that Nicola is sitting around "inventing things to do" or
that he
is "pushing you out."
Pushing me out because I thought that Nicola invented the issue. I now
understand that it was a knee-jerk reaction to committer's unilateral
action to purge some @author tags. I stand corrected.
Paul:
With all due respect - can you give me break? Enough already! Hey, I've
been asked to pull authors tags from a bunch of stuff I've been working
on - Meta, Assembly, Merlin, etc. and guess what - I was happy to do it
because there is a difference between giving credit to the members of a
community as opposed to some individual. My impression from the discussion
on Avalon dev on this topic was that the replacement of author tags with
a team tag was the conclusion. Ok - looks like I was wrong. No big deal
and certainly nothing justifying this thread.
IMHO the place to give credit is on a page about this community, its
members, the projects those members have contributed too, and are happy,
willing and able to support. Credit goes further - its about the history
of something - the companies the made things possible, the individuals
who are not longer here that started things - its not about an @author
tag - its about the community.
There is another important point that seems to have been missed in this
entire thread. Every time we talk about content here in Avalon,
everyone who puts forward an opinion about our platform, the tools,
utilities and services we provide - they are the authors - they impact
the direction of our code. I can point you lots of sources written by
myself exclusively, but I'm not the author - I'm just they guy the
translated different opinions into something machine readable. The
community is the author and the director. I happen to believe that
the code is byproduct of the community process, and the more you put
into the community the more interesting and rewarding it becomes.
Cheers, Steve.
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