I agree. Over at Jakarta (especially Commons) this discussion was renewed lately. Bottomline is that it's better (and safer for the ASF) to remove author tags from the sources and credit contributors in changes files, CVS messages and on websites. All source files should probably have one author tag pointing to the developer mailing list of the respective project.
Please see: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&by=thread&from=572799 That said I'm in favor for: - removing all author tags (and other such markings) in the source files - adding a "FOP Dev Team" author tag to every source file. - adding each name that is removed somewhere to a list of contributors (hopefully and if possible with a short note about the area of their contribution). - adding contributor names on demand (for those who only have their names in CVS messages) On 20.01.2004 18:37:51 J.Pietschmann wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > removed "former contributor" > > section in favor of going back to giving credit within source files. > > Uh, oh. That's not supposed to be a change anybody can make > on a whim. Jeremias Maerki
