+1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:52 PM, William Markito <wmark...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> +1 > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Kenneth Howe <kh...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > > +1 > > > > Ken > > > >> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Anthony Baker <aba...@pivotal.io> wrote: > >> > >> +1 > >> > >> The ASF policy is well known [1] and I think @author information is no > longer helpful in any case. > >> > >> Anthony > >> > >> [1] > http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt > >> > >>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Sai Boorlagadda <sboorlaga...@pivotal.io> > wrote: > >>> > >>> In preparation towards graduation I am planning to remove author tags > from > >>> all source files. > >>> > >>> GEODE-52 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-52>, has some > >>> discussions whether we should or shouldn`t remove them. > >>> > >>> I would like to restart the discussion and get a fresh consensus from > the > >>> community. > >>> > >>> Find below some of the reasons why ASF is against the author tags: > >>> > >>> - Attributions in source files are not up to date. > >>> - Software is a team effort. > >>> - ASF sells the code base as an ASF brand. > >>> - Shield against law-suits. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sai Boorlagadda > > >
