On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:39, 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'm +1 to removing author tags in general too. As an occasional contributor it is a rush to see your name in an author tag :-). But it also feels a bit excessive for small patches. And once you start submitting significant patches, everyone knows who you are anyway. If there is a website that contributors can point to and say "look, that's me" (eg for CVs) then I agree that author tags are not necessary. And the less clutter in the source files the better. Some system where the maven site had a list of contributors ordered by # of patches committed would be ideal though I can't immediately see how to implement that. I have also had people contact me directly when the message would have better been directed at the dev or user list; I presume the more prolific contributors would get this even worse. Removing author tags may help here. I do think that this issue should be reposted sometime after the 5th, when many more people would be back as opinions may vary. Of course for [collections], the main contributors seem to be working right now... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
