On 3/28/06, Sandy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have searched some and the arguments don't hold water with me.
Main reasons I cba to put my name on stuff I touch or create nowadays: * Private emails asking questions, offering patches etc. It starts to add up. * It's an effort to put @author in. I'm lazy. Lots of names in one file does start to feel spammy. * It's pretty minor in terms of recognition. > I'm proud of the code I've contributed and I think an @author tag is > proper recognition. I feel strongly enough about this that I'd rather > not contribute to apache at all than loose that recognition. We are > not the "Apache Borg". We are a group of individuals that enjoy > programming. I am not willing to be assimilated and if the rest of > apache has a problem with that then revoke my commit rights. Until we decide as a community to remove the @author bits, you're welcome to keep adding them in. I'm pretty sure we've not made any community decisions as that thread would have stretched on for a long time. It's not a case of borg btw; the alternative to @author appears to be listing the people involved in a project somewhere. Might be interesting to do that per release :) Very Sesame St; "Commons Lang 2.2 came to you via the work of ....". To refer directly to Rahul's "some of us believe" bit; I also believe that 50% of javadoc is a distraction to the code :) I doubt we're going to change that. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
