Hi Paul
I was already working on this when Ted mentioned to me that you were doing it. After reading this, I will let you handle it. I really appreciate your help. It's volunteering like this that gets people nominated ;)
Is there a bugzilla ticket opened for this yet? If so, I will attach a patch for what I've done. If you have time, you can take a look at it and let me know if this helps, or is a starting point. I'm sure I've missed something.
-- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Sundling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Removal of Author Tags [was RE: Documentation updates part 2]
When the ASF directive came down to remove all java author tags I actually did the patch that took care of it, including my own author tag. :)
At that time I actually collected all the names and added them to the volunteers page. At the time, it had all the contributers, big and small. Later that was also removed and now only a page listing the committers and PMC members remains.
Anyway that's why I remember that author tags were supposed to be removed. It does say we don't use author tags even in the how to help FAQ and says if a patch is submitted with author tags, the submitter may be asked to remove them. (!) So as Ted Husted points out, this has been policy for a while.
I'll submit a seperate bug report and patch to remove all author tags, including docs tonight. Since it affects lots of files, I hope the committers will act quickly or not at all.
After the smoke clears on this and the other patch I already submitted to fix docs and mention using current, I'll follow up on the remaining issues I noted.
Paul Sundling
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:59 +0000, Pilgrim, Peter wrote:> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Sundling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > First off, I see that the documentation equivalent of author tags are > still being used. I remember there was the big thing about > removing the > author tags from all java code. There was even an article on the > theinquirer.net about it: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14917 > Anyway, let me know if those doc authors should be removed and I'll > submit a patch. > > Incidentally, when I submitted a patch to the maven hosted changelog > plugin last week, I noticed author tags. I also see author > tags in this > project again. Is it backsliding, or did the policy change? I could > also do a patch removing author tags as well. > > Removing all of these would seem consistent with removing the previous > contributors page. >
Why do you want to remove author tags from the source code base? Have you totally absolved yourselves from developer attributions?
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