On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know if it's relevant, but I recall that back in the early 2000's > around the time of the adoption of the ASL 2.0 (when I was contributing to > Ant) the ASF had us stop using @author tags in code. I was not a fan at the > time, but they had some reason I don't fully recall relating to shielding > the contributors in the event of someone hitting a bug and then trying to > sue folks to recover losses or something. I wonder if that logic still > exists, and if this could be seen as related to that. It's also possible > that this memory has severely mutated while hanging out in the back of my > brain for 20 year :).
The context of the name appearing as I propose in a "thank you" is merely to thank them, not to indirectly hold them to stability/quality measures. I don't think it's related. @author tags can repel a collaborative ownership mindset on a specific bit of code. I used to @author my code out of pride but long ago I realized those tags are a bad idea and also kind of needless with git-blame anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org
