2009/7/7 Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Claus Ibsen<claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I want to propose that we remove the @author tags in the source code >> for Apache Camel. >> We only have about 20 files with author tags and for 2 persons. >> >> As I understand its not common at Apache to have @author tags in the >> source code. >> >> Here is my +1 to remove them
+1. Its silly to have just 20 files out of zillions with author tags. Plus the code is all ours rather than a certain individual. (Plus I've found you tend to get emailed directly when things go wrong rather than folks using the mailing lists!) > This is always decided on a project-by-project basis at the ASF. There > is no policy that disallows them at all. In fact, I find them very > useful to know who has worked on a given class and therefore I prefer > them. They are rarely accurate. You can use the svn log to find out who really worked on a file. Even in the rare cases of things moving (e.g. incubation) its quite easy to track where a file originated from. -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://fusesource.com/
