Basically removing all the @author tags from the velocity code base
and docs and replacing it with 'Velocity development community' and a
link to the dev-list.
How about doing this?
-1 from me as a user.
In a lot of projects when I had problems, I was able to ask directly the
author(s)
of that class/utility, and this was very helpful. The complete project was too
big
and the work of just too many people.
Yes, and this is excactly what we want to get rid of. None of the code
is owned by any of us and sometimes the person named in the source is
not even any longer around. That is the whole point of community.
I don't think it's a good idea to get rid of exactly that thing :).
My experience is that for a lot of open source projects, the so called "active
community" is full of *zealots* that are ready all the time to rip the new user's request apart
instead of helping.
In most cases however, the author is very kind and helps, and most of the time
knows better
why he "designed that thing so", or just has very useful "insider information".
Maybe you want to avoid contacting the authors, but that is the main reason people still use many of
those projects (and in many cases hire them as consultants :) ).
If you want to know, which committer wrote a specific line of code
(which is much more interesting than who is mentioned in a file), use
svn blame or the subversion viewer. That is what tools are there for.
Of course :). However just reading what's on the screen takes less than a
second, and most
from the "Human Resources" have no ideas about such tools :).
Do you really think the users do care so much about "cosmetics" when the concurrent
products/technologies get real improvements?
At least I do not really care about 'products' or 'technologies'.
This "vision" from you can be really seen in the "evolution of Velocity" in the last few years,
don't you think? :).
Ahmed.
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