In (requires login and proper rights) https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Confirming_that_the_current_stance_on__author_tags_as.html
I quote the Apache Board minutes: "per Greg's email message of February is still appropriate (Recommend strongly that @author is avoided; but leave it to each PMC to make the final call with their respective communities.). This was confirmed." Well, the way I see it, nothing is required of us to happen, but I do not see why we would go against a STRONG recommendation. Gary On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 08:40 Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Gary & all, > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 5:10 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > In general @author tags are discouraged Apache wide IIRC but I don't > have a URL for that. Over in the Commons project, we not only stopped using > them, but I've removed most of them. The tags are usually misleading > because that's usually never the only person who touched the file. You then > get into games about what the threshold for adding a name is, and that's a > waste of time IMO. > > > > Instead, authors get credit in the pom.xml, and in changed.xml for each > action element which are used to generate release notes. And that's a much > better reflection of who did what. > > > > My suggestion is that we do the same in Xalan-J. > > I've just been analyzing earlier today, XalanJ codebase on dev branch > xalan-j_xslt3.0, about presence of @author tags, and below are few of > my findings, > > From all the .java files from XalanJ dev branch xalan-j_xslt3.0, that > have @author tags, > > 1) Total number of Java files that've these tags 726 > > There are following two types of @author tags present, > > @author tags that have person's name but not email address > > @author tags that have person's name and email address both > > 2) The Java files that bear my name and email address 86 > > Please advise, how we should proceed given these @author tags > information details, within XalanJ codebase in general. > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org > >
