At present [collections] has a mixture of email addresses. Some people have their email address by the code in the java file, some don't.
I recently extracted all email addresses and names to the maven project xml file, applying a minimum anti spam tactic.
I recently did the same thing for [lang], but left out the email addresses entirely. I know that [lang] and [collections] could decide to do things differently, but it would be nice to have a Commons-level policy on this.
Personally, I don't really see the point in having email addresses in either place, unless people positively want to be contacted individually (and hence run the risk of attracting spam). Given that all discussion is supposed to happen on the lists, I don't see why people would normally want/need to contact authors/contributors directly. On the other hand, I can imagine some scenarios where people might want to include their email addresses, and I can also imagine some scenarios where contacting original authors who are no longer monitoring the dev list would be useful, so most likely the ideal scenario would be to let the individuals decide. This would be a PITA to maintain manually, but it would allow people to choose.
So...if we have to choose a global policy, I would lean toward the conservative approach of omitting in both places (no/no); but I would be +0 for your proposal (yes/no). Somehow, however, I keep coming back to the view that the decision really belongs to the contributor.
Phil
But what should we do in general? And how much does this matter?
Email addresses in project.xml - Yes/No? I prefer yes.
Email addresses in code - Keep/Remove? I prefer remove.
Opinions?
Stephen
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