In going through the code today I noticed there are some author javadoc tags. Many of them are "none" or "unattributed", but there are a few that are people.
Author tags are generally frowned on at the ASF, AFAICT, but it's still up to individual PMCs to decide if they want an actual rule. Those few communities I've found a discussion in seem to have gone with "no author tags". Personally, I don't think author tags are useful or appropriate. The code is developed by "the NiFi community" and not any one individual. There's an old thread on community@ that I think does a good job of making the case against them[1]. What do folks think? If we go with the "no @author tags" thing, then I can make a cleanup patch to remove what's already present. Checking for them in new patches is pretty easy. [1]: http://s.apache.org/iZl -- Sean
