Feel free, I don't find @author useful enough to fight for it staying. Hen
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Phil Steitz wrote: > The subject of @author tags has been discussed on and off here and > elsewhere with no apparent consensus. In a recent post to general@, Ted > Husted pointed to this post > > <http://tinyurl.com/yrlhu> > > by Greg Stein to community at apache.org, which raises some disturbing > legal and community issues around the use of @author tags. I am convinced > by his arguments that we should eliminate @author tags uniformly once we > clean up the web site and get the process of updating and publishing > contributor lists routinized (read: complete the mavenization of the j-c > web site). > > I assume that this needs to be decided for each of the components > separately. With that in mind, I would like to start by removing/omitting > @author tags from [uid] and I would like to propose that we pull them out > of [collections] and [lang] as and when we complete mavenization of the > websites for these components (or otherwise publish a full and up-to-date > contributors list). > > Now would be a good time to act on [collections], since we are about to > cut a release. So...what do we think about pulling out the @author tags > from [collections] and pushing out the maven site with 3.0? If we want to > hold off on the mavenization until we have worked out the larger j-c site > issues, we can just add a "contributors" page to the existing site to > acknowledge contributors. If others are in favor, I will volunteer to > grep out the @authors and do this. > > Phil > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
