> On Mar 9, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Clebert Suconic <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Please don’t use @author tags…. Highly discouraged at apache as it implies >> some level of “ownership” over the file. If I see @author tags in files >> I’m in, I tend to remove them. > > > Really? owner != author!
No, but there is definitely an implied relationship. But it doesn’t really matter. This was discussed at the BOARD level at Apache a long time ago and the board has declared they should be discouraged. See: (Special order D) http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
