Thanks Mark, That's true: you have inspired me. Thanks, Tim, for a question about reasons. Here they are: 1. One day Harmony flow will need a new blood. 2. For DRLVM contribution I put most of @author tags and felt somehow responsible about the way how I distributed them. 3. Existing tags multiply tag paranoia. 4. I'm creating a patch for @author removal [1].
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5769 -- With best regards, Alexei On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xiao-Feng Li wrote: > > > Hi, sorry for being different here. > > > > I strongly object to remove author names without any reason, although > > I don't mind removing myself's name. They put the names in their > > original code for their own reasons, it's not other people's right to > > remove their names without any reason. > > > > We should respect the original authors. If they put their names there, > > let's leave them there until people contributing to the same files > > decide to remove them. Yes, the software is community work, but it > > doesn't mean that to keep some authors' names contradicts this spirit. > > On the contrary, I believe a community with individual respect is more > > healthful. We should leave the choice to the invidual contributors. I > > personally don't see any negative effect with authors' names in the > > source files. > > > > To have long list of author names in the file header is not very > > beautiful, but that's the contributors' own decision. If you are also > > a contributor to same file and you feel it's stupid, you can assume > > your own responsibility to beautify it. You can decide to remove the > > author name list. You can also decide to add your own name to the list > > and make the list into ascii art. > > > > That's how it works at the moment really -- different people do different > things. > > I see no evidence of people jealously guarding areas of code that they > wrote, and it is good to see that people take areas of responsibility in > Harmony without claiming fiefdoms. > > So a question back to Alexei (at the top of this thread): Why did you start > asking people that question? > > Regards, > Tim > -- With best regards, Alexei
