G'day, The Avalon project recently voted to remove all author names from source files, and replace them with the mailing list address. A few ASF members and long-time Jakarta developers commented on what a good idea this was, Noel forwarded this to the list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=james-dev&m=103825695101689&w=2
I think that moving into James3, this would be good for us as well. I'm all for the notion of "collective code ownership", and I think @author tags make this a little harder. (I also worry about spambot finding my email address in the source). So, I propose the following vote: <vote> 1) We replace all @author tags in the source with a single line @author <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>James Development Team</a> 2) We make sure that any author that has had their name removed gets a mention in the contributors page. </vote> We need to come up with a simple policy for adding names to the contributors page. Maybe simply getting a patch applied would be sufficient.. -- ciao, Daz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
