Many will remember the discussion on whether the ASF should discourage, ban or allow @author tags. I'm not sure that the end result was reported out to the whole community, so going ahead and doing so now. Apologies if a repeat.
The boards statement (via Sam) is that:
Sam: "The choice of @authors or not is a PMC level decision. "
Many do think that @author tags are not useful, but we're free to do what we want.
My opinion:
If we ever get subprojects where things are getting childish over @author tags and recognition for fixing newlines or removing unused imports (made up examples), then we should just take the easy way out on that subproject and remove the @author tags. Otherwise, we continue as normal.
Hen
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