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Niall Pemberton commented on GEODE-52:
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Link to the policy of discouraging author tags from the February 2004 board
meeting:
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http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02_18.txt
Explanation From the ASF President at the time, Dirk-Willem van Gulik:
- http://s.apache.org/authortags
I would say this is an often debated item and its been left up to projects
if/when they implement it. Apache Commons, which was in existence at the time
(as part of the Jakarta project) still has components which have not yet
implemented the policy. IMO its a good policy and it will become more obvious
the longer Geode exists as an open source project, but its not something that
has to be decided at the start. I also would say that its not something that
should block a release.
> Remove @author tags from Java source
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>
> Key: GEODE-52
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-52
> Project: Geode
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Jakob Homan
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> Apache generally frowns on @author tags (as they imply ownership of the code
> by a single individual, see
> https://blogs.oracle.com/ahe/entry/coding_conventions_and_attribution [best
> asf link is not working, annoyingly] and
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AVRO/How+To+Contribute as an
> example)
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