Hi, > Can we just remove the @author annotation to avoid this kind of change?
Apache is not fond of author tags as: - A file is usually edited by multiple people over time. - Version control will record who checks in what changes when. - We would rather people contact the project than committers directly. There's certainly no reason to add or change them in existing code. Given that all the code is now ASF code I think they should be removed, but up to the PPMC to decide / work out a policy on this. I can provide some link where this has come up before on other projects if anyone needs. Thanks, Justin
