Hi, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/13, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Currently there are a lot of @author tags in MyFaces code, and I see > > that they are still being added to (at least some) new files. > > > > Should this be normal, or should they be phased out? > > At Struts and Tiles we removed them all, since the "author" of a file > is not a single person, and the copyright owner is the foundation > (meaning "all the people inside the foundation").
yep > The author is contained inside the Subversion logs, both in direct > commits and contribution through a patch (where the name of the > contributor is contained inside the log description). right, thanks to SVN Blame ;-) I'd also say, that even in a corp. @author tags don't make sense. a) mostly a the (special ) development team is responsible for the code... b) mostly there are "code owners" c) folks start to send you direct email, b/c they see you are the author etc. > > Ciao > Antonio > -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
