I do not see any reason to remove these tags...
2008/4/22, Alexei Fedotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > Let's ask a waiter to serve a soup and flies separately. There were > two different questions here. > > 1. Credits. I created a list on Wiki [1] so any unfairness could be > easily fixed. > 2. Author removal. The patch [2] is ready. There was no consensus on > the list about it. If one who raised the question in a separate thread > few days ago is a true gentlemen, he would marry her, I mean, would > facilitate some consensus before applying the patch. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/People > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5769 > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Alexey Varlamov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > With best regards, > Alexei >
