2008/4/22, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 21 April 2008 Alexei Fedotov wrote: > > Hello folks > > > > I started asking people how they would feel about removing their names > > from the source files. One of replies I got was that it would be nice > > to keep the names in the list of contributors. Any ideas on > > feasibility of the file, a suitable name (NOTICE?) and any > > corresponding Apache guidelines? > > You can remove my name, I have no objections. I can't speak for others and I > don't really care whether author tags are present in the files or not.
This should be easier to take for committers, as their names are publicly credited on Harmony site anyway. ;) Seriously, I think many peoples are proud of their work and would prefer to stay listed in credits someway. Don't those projects which remove @author from sources, maintain a sort of CREDITS.txt instead? I personally prefer to keep original author names in sources till a moment then other contributors to the same file/area feel that it is appropriate to drop them. Seeing names in a quick glance helps to build that subtle association between peoples and source code, and adds another link in community in the end. So I second Xiao-Feng, such removal should not be mechanical. Regards, Alexey > > -- > Gregory >
