So far I refrained from removing author tags that were not my own. I don't think you'll find my name in any author tag inside XML Graphics anymore (except in documentation). In an ideal world we'd have the time and motivation to remove all of the author tags and to add the names of all the contributors (not just those with author tags) to a list on the website somewhere. Quite a bit of work especially since not everyone uses the "Submitted by:" pattern when applying patches. But I think it would be worth it. I guess if you'd do that for Batik, it could motivate me to do the same in FOP on a rainy Sunday. :-)
On 15.11.2006 13:15:55 Cameron McCormack wrote: > Hi evyerone. > > Is there a policy on @author tags in source files? Im about to change > the licence text in Batiks files according to > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html, which got me thinking > about the @authors. I guess in Batik theyre mostly just an indication > of who created the file (and I think sometimes thats not even correct, > since it could have been copied over from another file). I guess for an > accurate indication of authorship, the svn logs could be checked. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
