On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lots of reasons. One being the sheer amount of spam I get from web > collected email addresses. > > As far as author tags promoting code quality and accountability, that > doesn't happen for me in practice,
But you just removed your tags so how much 'practice' have you had really? At work it's different because you probably work with a very small group of people, or an even smaller number on a per client basis. I think in OSS where there can be a great number of contributors and given that CVS history has been known to disappear the @author tags can only be a good thing. > and getting a history of a particular > file is a piece of cake for anyone that uses an IDE, or knows CVS. Provided the history is intact, yes. > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
