Thanks Andrew!

Were you planning on running this against the other jclouds repos as well?

/jd

On 6/7/14, 9:52 PM, "Andrew Gaul" <g...@apache.org> wrote:

>I removed all @author annotations and empty Javadoc with some sed
>scripts.  Checkstyle should ensure that we do not add @author
>annotations in the future.  Thank you for opening this issue Chris!
>
>On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:30:43AM -0600, Chris Custine wrote:
>> +1
>> 
>> I added https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-546 a while back
>>with
>> a comment explaining that these are discouraged by Apache anyway due to
>> copyright assignment.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> --
>> Chris Custine
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:02:24PM +0200, Ignasi Barrera wrote:
>> > > * Regarding attribution, to be polite and democratic, I've asked to
>> > > remove the "@author" tags (the pull request which copies Andrea's
>> > > original code has changed some of those tags in the javadoc). To
>>avoid
>> > > conflicts here, I'd asked to remove them, according to the policy
>> > > that's being followed in many other ASF projects.
>> >
>> > Can we remove all the @author Javadoc from jclouds?  These Potemkin
>> > comments compose roughly 1% of all of core code and have bit-rotted:
>> >
>> > $ find -name \*.java | xargs cat | wc -l
>> > 518196
>> > $ find -name \*.java | xargs grep @author | wc -l
>> > 4493
>> >
>> > I can automate removal of these and add a Checkstyle regex to prevent
>> > further graffiti.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Andrew Gaul
>> > http://gaul.org/
>> >
>
>-- 
>Andrew Gaul
>http://gaul.org/

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