from the summary of the most recent board meeting: <snip/> - author tags are officially discouraged. <snip/> - it is quite acceptable and encouraged to recognize developers' efforts in a CHANGES file, or some other descriptive file <snip/>
avalon already adopted this as policy some time ago (I and some others even went through /all/ the source code and changed all author tags to "Avalon Development Team"). I've seen recent sources stray from that somewhat. Since this is now ASF policy as well (though not mandatory), this seemed a good time for a reminder.....please adjust your IDEs!
I suppose then that Avalon coding standard document at http://avalon.apache.org/community/process/code-standards.html should be updated to reflect this, since the coding standard explicitly states exactly the opposite:
[quote]
If you contribute to a file (code or documentation), add yourself to the top of the file. For .java files the preferred Javadoc format is:
@author <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">John Doe</a>
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