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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-1147:
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+1
I was originally liked them, but they mostly end up creating noise. For
example, I wrote the sort and word count examples that many people use for the
start of their first map/reduce program and my name is in the @author. Someone
didn't remove the comments and then handed off their program to someone else
and it lead to confusion.
> remove all @author tags from source
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1147
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1147
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assigned To: Doug Cutting
> Priority: Minor
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> We should remove @author tags from the source code. We give contributors
> credit in at least three places (Jira, subversion and CHANGES.txt). Many
> files have been substantially re-written by a range of contributors and their
> @author tags are no longer accurate. Also, @author tags imply individual
> ownership, when we should rather strive for community ownership.
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