Hi Justin, Just FYI: it’s not recommended by the ASF board that @author tags be removed. It’s up to the community to decide these things. Many communities decide to do this - they are not required to; nor does the board recommend these things :)
Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> Reply-To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 12:53 AM To: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org> Subject: Re: Author tags in SDK code >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
