I don't know if it's an ASF policy, but yes, I've seen the same discussions happening in other projects and the decision has typically been to remove the author tags. My opinion is that the author tag creates more problem than it solves, especially for open source projects.
Kalle On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think it has been discussed before, so let's start now. I'm not > sure that it's written somewhere on the ASF site, but @author tags are > strongly discouraged. ( > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/207/1037207/apache-enforces-the-removal-of-author-tags). > > > It would be better to replace them by something like : > @author <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>Apache JSecurity > Project</a> > > (assuming that the mail address is correct) > > The idea is that the code is own by The ASF, not by individuals. The > objection that those who originally wrote the code would like to see their > name in the header does not really hold, as : > - the code can be changed many times since its inception, and we won't put > all the authors in the header > - SVN can pretty trace all the authors (svn blame) > - and we already have a file listing the authors (it can be generated with > Maven, too) > > May be the other mentors can confirm or find evidences I don't have time to > search for on The ASF site this morning :) > > Thanks ! > > [email protected] wrote: > >> Author: lhazlewood >> Date: Mon Feb 23 03:58:19 2009 >> New Revision: 746874 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=746874&view=rev >> Log: >> JSEC-56 - implemented functionality recommended by patch. >> >> Modified: >> >> >> incubator/jsecurity/trunk/web/src/org/jsecurity/web/WebRememberMeManager.java >> >> Modified: >> incubator/jsecurity/trunk/web/src/org/jsecurity/web/WebRememberMeManager.java >> URL: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/jsecurity/trunk/web/src/org/jsecurity/web/WebRememberMeManager.java?rev=746874&r1=746873&r2=746874&view=diff >> >> ============================================================================== >> --- >> incubator/jsecurity/trunk/web/src/org/jsecurity/web/WebRememberMeManager.java >> (original) >> +++ >> incubator/jsecurity/trunk/web/src/org/jsecurity/web/WebRememberMeManager.java >> Mon Feb 23 03:58:19 2009 >> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ >> * to be an instance of something <em>other</em> than a >> <code>CookieAttribute</code>.</p> >> * >> * @author Les Hazlewood >> + * @author Luis Arias >> >> > > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
