On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:22 AM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
My opinion would be not to remove the author tag. Author tag shows the contribution of a person and is a good contact point in case any one needs to clarifiy certain behavior. Actually it would be good if Jeff can be made a committer as part of the code grant because of his contribution in so many files. His becoming committer would also be good for the ASF project and the community.
On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
What I would do is just remove the names from the code, and in the
commit message, note that you are removing as they are internal Sun
committers, that their work was done at Sun before the contribution was
made, and you are removing them to eliminate the confusion that arose.
I would prefer that my @author stay intact. I have just sent in an ICLA.
It doesn't matter for this case - the existence of the author tags reflects work that happened before the software was donated to Apache, so from a legal standpoint, it's moot. I know this may come across as harsh, and I don't mean to be - the use of author tags is a community issue (and a generally contentious one!) and one that the ASF board has recommended against. However it is up to the individual project to decide how author tags are handled.
That's entirely up to the community :)
geir
- Neeraj
Personally, I'd find it utterly baffling to find an author tag in the file with no related commit by that author. An alternative to just erasing them, in order to preserve that information in some way, would be to move it to the NOTICE file for the project?
An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a committer. you do have the paperwork done :)
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