Hi, Leif Mortenson wrote: > What is the policy on this going to be for the Excalibur project? I lost > the argument over in Avalon, but I feel that keeping an author's name > around is an important way of making sure that developers who contribute > are given credit for their work.
My preference would be that authors are NOT in source files but are in the "develoeprs" (or "contributors") section in the maven project files. That way the people who have contributed to a particular codebase (be it instrument, ecm or whatever) are attributed but it avoids situations that I have seen before. IIRC there was at least a few people in Apache who would do things like rename classes, or style classes and suddenly their name would be in every source file .. sometimes replacing the original developers name. Lets avoid this behaviour but lets also give credit where credit is due. I would say that there is a general policy that anyone who submits a patch gets added as a contributor for specific codebase that they patched. When they end up doing a "significant" amount of work they get credited as "developers" of codebase. -- Cheers, Peter Donald *-----------------------------------------------------* * "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, * * and proving that there is no need to do so - almost * * everyone gets busy on the proof." * * - John Kenneth Galbraith * *-----------------------------------------------------* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Excalibur Project -- URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/
