That's the whole point. It would be unjust to no differentiate between regular day-to-day contributors (whom we have a few) and a single one liner patch contribution. I do think we have to go into some details to make such a 'thank you' page meaningful.
I agree. We would want to mention people with a little detail about what they contributed.
Just a wild thought: what if we abandoned @author tags simultaneously with the planned 4.0 rewrite, compiling the 'thank you' list as the bits of code get migrated from the old jakarta-commons tree into (if that works out, of course) jakarta level repository? What if we kept the tags for the 3.0 release, as long as we stay in the Jakarta Commons?
There are a couple of questions here. One involves our move out of commons, and the other is about timing.
In regard to moving, I think we should figure that out separately. I don't think we know quite yet how long the move will take, and if we want to do it pre or post 3.0.
As far as timing goes, we can be pretty flexible I think. My preference would be to stop adding author tags now and begin putting people on a thank you list. We can then migrate existing @authors when the time seems right, (i.e. whenever someone gets stuck doing it).
Mike
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