Mild disagreement. I like seeing the reminders of who contributed to what parts of the system, and some of that history predates our moving to Git (or even the code's contribution to Apache).
I think authors deserve credit. But I'm biased; I worked directly with many of those people. I suppose the information could be extracted and summarized into a "credits page", if someone wanted to spend the cycles on that. -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ () Plaintext Ribbon Campaign /\ Stamp out HTML mail! ________________________________ From: Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2023 4:39:39 AM To: dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org> Subject: Suggestion: avoid adding @author tag to javadoc Hi, I suggest to stop adding @author tags. The relevant information exists in Git, and it is hard to tell when @author tags should be added, updated, and removed. See reasoning in https://stackoverflow.com/a/17271433, https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/issues/914#issuecomment-328078934 What do you think? Vladimir -- Vladimir
