Hi Bernd, from my PoV you can remove the tag for the reasons you mentioned. We attribute authorship via the developers tag in pom.xml. So there is no need for individual documents to contain a reference to the author who initially created the document. To be sure, I've put Ralph in cc, so he can object to this change.
Regards, Benedikt 2014-06-30 22:06 GMT+02:00 Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net>: > Hello, > > in [VFS] (but I guess the question is broader) I see an <author> tag in > the changes.xml. However most of the recent changes (as well as the > entries) to that file are from different persons. What is the best way > here? I feel uneasy to write a text which is attributed (possibly > unknowingly) to some other person. > > Remove the tag (as this is a collaboratively edited document), keep > the author as the (probable) creator? Change it to the PMC or devlist or > change it to the active commiters of the last/current release? > > Gruss > Bernd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
