On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:32:36 -0500, Ted Husted wrote: > I'll look around for a summary or post one myself.
Here's a post of mine from last March. --- Original Message --- From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:24:19 -0500 Subject: Re: Apache enforces the removal of author tags > IMHO, at some point, issues like this come down to trusting the > judgment of those which have gone before us. The consensus among > Apaches who have been doing this for a long time now is that author > tags create more problems than they solve. Even in the brief four > years that we have been working on Struts, we came to the same > conclusion. We removed the author tags, and everyone is fine with > it. > > The board has simply *recommended* that communities do without > author tags. So call it an ASF "best practice" if you will. If a > community is happier keeping the tags, no one is telling a > community they have to remove them. It's up to each community to > decide for themselves. Ant, Struts, et al, removed them. Others are > keeping them. > > This has gone 'round and 'round the mulberry bush on the Jakarta > PMC list, and, despite the investment in bandwidth, I don't thing > anyone's mind was changed in the end. Either you don't agree with > the points made by Greg Stein's post to the community list: > > <http://tinyurl.com/yrlhu> > > or you don't. > > On some points, we have to agree to disagree and move on. If Greg's post isn't enough, here are some other links: * http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=107788069123268&w=2 * http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000109.html -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
