HI, > Ignore them. There’s no hard rule that they cannot be there.
You're correct in that there's no absolute rule but it is strongly recommended by the ASF board that they be removed. With the possible exception of releases and legal policy that's about as hard as the ASF gets. :-) I've already removed most of them anyway (2000 or 3000 odd I'd guess). Showing that the code belongs to the community rather than an individual hopefully encourages people to contribute. Also given a large number of the authors tagged no longer contribute to the project it's really only of historical interest. The reason I haven't yet removed them from that particular location is that it contains (Apache licensed) 3rd party code and I'm not 100% sure if we can remove them or not. I'm happy to do the work here (unless anyone else wants to help out that is). Was just asking to see what other people think. Thanks, Justin
