Kalle Korhonen wrote:
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
Ok, having spent the 5 minutes to search on Apache site :
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_09_22.txt
"
F. Confirming that the current stance on @author tags as
per Greg's email message of February is still appropriate
(Recommend strongly that @author is avoided; but leave it to
each PMC to make the final call with their respective
communities.).
This was confirmed."
So it's recommended, not mandatory. As we don't have a PMC right now
(but we will have one when the project will exit incubation), there is
no urgency, but I think it's a good timing to decide what to do
regarding this item.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
