+1 to remove @author and simply keep the committers in the pom. On 30 Mar 2015 14:34, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/03/15 11:50, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> at the Apache Commons project, we've decided to attribute authors of the >> code in the developers section of pom.xml. While browsing the code, I >> found >> four classes with @author tag: >> >> - simple/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/rdf/simple/ >> BlankNodeImplTest.java >> - simple/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/rdf/simple/TypesTest.java >> - api/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/rdf/api/AbstractBlankNodeTest.java >> - simple/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rdf/simple/Types.java >> >> Would it be a problem for the Commons RDF community to move this >> attributions to pom.xml? >> > > Not for me - attribution on specific files can put people off so I'm not > in favour of @author. > > The POM, or a separate file, is a good place to recognize contribution. > > Andy > > >> Thank you! >> Benedikt >> >> >
