Author tags in source code is a bad idea. As many have pointed out
you can determine responsibility from cvs and give credit on a web
page. To me, its important that the entire community feels that they
have ownership (responsibility and credit) for all the code. That's
what open source is all about, after all. Author tags serve no other
purpose, IMO, than to give a developer bragging rights to some portion
of the project. A credits page would be a much more effective
instrument for giving credit.
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:17 AM, Jason Dillon wrote:
Code responsibility means that even though anyone may leap in and
hack on
a piece, the long term future of a piece of code is the
responsibility of
known people. Effectively code-ownership [bad] is implementation while
code responsibility [good] is design. Author tags signify code
responsibility.
