On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:54 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 10/12/06, Ortwin Glück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roland Weber wrote: > > > on second thoughts: do we really want to deal with charsets and character > > > encodings in our source code? If so, which should it be? ISO-Latin-15? > > > Unicode in UTF-8? (I don't know a russian codepage as another example :-) > > > Will we run into conversion problems, from Subversion or our editors? > > > I haven't yet figured out how to make Emacs load and store UTF-8. > > > > Roland, > > > > Feel free to use the German ASCII replacement in my Name: "Glueck". > > > > > The alternative is to declare the source code US-ASCII, and to use the > > > standard Java mechanisms (\unnnn) or, for JavaDocs, HTML escapes > > > (&#xnnn; ü) for special characters. > > > > BTW, there has been some discussion as to whether the @author tags > should be present in ASF code at all; not sure that it was decided > finally either way... > > S. >
Hi Sebastian, I personally do not fully agree with the arguments frequently given as the rationale for not using @author tags. As far as I know there is no official policy regarding the use of @author tags, so it is ultimately up to individual projects to decide. The issue was discussed before on this list and the outcome was to keep @author tags but to require all new contributors who wish to have authorship attribution in the source code to have a CLA on file. (1) This ensures contributors may not claim copyright based on the fact they are mentioned as co-authors of some components in an ASF owned project. (2) The hassle of having to go though the trouble of filing a CLA should also act as a rather significant discouragement for those folks who may otherwise be tempted to ask for an @author entry based on submission of a one-liner fix. Folks, does this agreement still hold? Is it time we revisited the decision? Oleg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
