+1 I agree about no @author tags, they tend to say who wrote the initial version of the class. As long as we have SVN history to identify who we might ask if we have a question about some code fragment, that is good enough for me.
-Stephen On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we want a policy about @author tags and other comment metadata about > authorship? > > Personally, I'd like to see none at all - they age badly and maybe they > put off outside contributors to the code. > > (I've just been in some very old code and while it's an interesting > history exercise, it's not very useful. I have some time ago removed any > @author with my name on in ARQ, TDB etc.) > > Thoughts? > > Andy > >
