I never use @author tags in other projects – but it was a requirement in Ignite's Coding Style, that's why I added it to the example.
I'm -1 for @author tags, in fact. They not useful for code maintenance (as the body of the @authored block can change line by line – better use git blame or git log to find out who the author was) nor for meritocracy purposes, as no one will dig in so deep and we already have a Team page to list participants.
