I like @author tags in general, but have no qualms about moving them to pom.xml.
On 31 March 2015 at 00:34, 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 >> >
