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
>



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