On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > With the recent changes there are ~520 author tags and similar in the > 12.0.x code base. As far as I can see, none are for currently active > Tomcat committers. > > Given that the general ASF view is that author tags and similar are not > a good idea (they promote the idea of individuals owning or being > responsible for overseeing parts of the code base) what do folks think > about removing them entirely? > > I would be happy to do this work. > > My plan would be to do one commit per author so that a) the author's > name appears in the (much more recent) git commit log and b) we have a > relatively easy route to revert a removal if we wanted to. > > I will note that there is no legal nor technical requirement to maintain > author tags. Their addition was an entirely social convention as was the > decision to stop using them (I think around the time I joined the project). > > Thoughts? > +1
