My bad as usual ;) Our internal policy is to have @author added so my Eclipse is configured that way, thus I have to remember to explicitly remove them
Will try and do this in future, Rob On 11/19/12 12:35 PM, "Stephen Allen" <[email protected]> wrote: >+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 >> >>
