Nathan Bubna wrote:
On 5/3/07, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
just sitting in Aarons' "incubating open source communities" talk and
a subject that came up again is removing the author tags. I know, that
in the past, I've been -1 on this but as we do have a CONTRIBUTORS
file now, I'd like to discuss this again.
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?
I have become thoroughly opposed to having my email address anywhere
in the source, due to people asking me questions off of the mailing
list. Drives me nuts...
Nathan, the above would be a legitimate reason for you not to put *your*
email address in @author tags in source, or for you simply to refrain
from putting @author tags in source at all. I do not see how it is an
argument for removing @author tags placed there by other people.
In general, there is nothing in the nature of javadoc tags that requires
you to include an email address, and if you did include one, it could
perfectly well be the address of the appropriate mailing list, could it not?
Now, really, as for it bothering you so much that people write you in
private to ask a question about some code you wrote, nobody obliges you
to even answer. It is true that they should perhaps pose the question on
the dev list. However, I think that, at some point, one must make
allowances for human frailty. Some people are very reluctant to ask
questions in a public forum, for fear of appearing stupid, or whatever,
and will only ask them in private.
In general, I wonder about the whole psychology behind the removal of
@author tags. After all, the technical/pragmatic arguments in favor of
removal strike me as extremely weak. So it has me wondering, what are
the *real* reasons that prophets of the so-called "Apache Way" are so
adamant about removing @author tags? (And that's not a purely rhetorical
question. I pose the question because I really don't know. OTOH, I don't
really expect a forthright honest response to this from any of those
poeple... :-))
Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
As for removing my name... sure, whatever, i'll go with the flow
either way on that. i see value both ways. since the ASF in general
seems to frown on the idea, that's probably the flow we should follow.
Best regards
Henning
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