+1 to removing named authors, but -0 putting to @author james dev team... I don't think an author tag is worth having at all.
With regards to naming/maintaining contributors, the policy I had been using (a long while back) is as follows: - if you get a patch (or a great bug report) from someone, you put their name and email address in the commit message. - when you update the changelog, you can either attribute a change to the committer, or the person mentioned in the commit message if it is so specified. - if it's a new person, you add their name and email address to the top of the changelog (so you can define the new initials... you have to see the xml file to understand). I think it's important to credit in the changelogs of who did what, as the changelog is the real meassure of the vitality and velocity of the project, and the people doing that deserve recognition (IMHO). This continues the shift away from @author tags, which credit who *did* what, to changelogs, which credit who *is doing* what. Am I just getting too vitriolic at this point? Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies http://www.lokitech.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell DeBoer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: [VOTE] Drop @author tags from source files > 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]>
