> > Dirk-Willem, does Apache have any position on @author > > tags or other author attributions in source files?
The board does not have any specific concerns at this time. But from a community standpoint; please consider this carefully; there are a lot of people who are crucial to this community; and have been instrumental in getting apache where it is today; who would never come near a '@author' tag - as they fix bugs, help with releases, testing, respond on mailing lists, help people out, documentation, translation, design - rather than writing big enough blocks of code. Which is why something like a 'changes' file with 'item' wise acknowledge ments is often more approriate than sprinkling code with @author tags. Or worse; reserving one at the very top for just a select few. But again - the fop community needs to figure this out - your commnity, your environment. However seeing things like 'my baby - I wrote a lot' does worry me; as it is often the community as a whole who makes thigns work. So personally (and this msg does not come from a @apache.org addr) - I would not go there and kind of keep on the path of 8 months ago Dw
